Igor Vurgaftman

Igor Vurgaftman received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI in 1995. Since then, he has been with the Optical Sciences Division of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, DC, where he is currently Head of the Quantum Optoelectronics Section. At NRL, he has investigated mid-infrared lasers based on interband and intersubband transitions, type-II superlattice photodetectors, as well as the physics of various plasmonic and polaritonic devices. He is the author of more than 270 refereed articles in technical journals, cited more than 11,000 times (h-index of 45), as well as more than 20 patents. Dr. Vurgaftman is a recipient of the IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award (2012). He is a Fellow of the Optical Society and the American Physical Society.