Vladimir Shiryaev

Vladimir S. Shiryaev received the Graduate degree from the Department of Applied Physics and Microelectronics, Nizhny Novgorod State University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 1983, the Ph.D. degree in chemistry in 1992, and the Dr.Sc. degree in chemistry in 2007. Since 1985, he has been working in the Laboratory of Chemistry of the High-Purity Non-Oxide Glasses, Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. Since 1996, he has been a Lecturer in optical fibers and chemistry of glassy state, Nizhny Novgorod State University. He is involved in several international research programs. He has more than 180 scientific articles and contributed papers. He has been involved in research work on the preparation and investigation of various properties of infrared transmitting glasses for ultralow-loss fiber optics. His current research interests include synthesis and investigation of chalcogenide and fluoride glasses, and preparation of low-loss optical fibers (multimode, single-mode, microstructured, activated with REE).