KEYNOTE SPEAKER 1
PROFESSOR DR ANVAR A. ZAKHIDOV
Deputy Director of UTD-NanoTech Institute, University of Texas, Dallas
Biography
Professor Anvar A. Zakhidov is Deputy Director of UTD-NanoTech Institute, Full Professor of Physics, Affiliated Professor of Materials Science and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry. He is also visiting professor of National Research University TIIAME, Tashkent & Samarkand NU, Uzbekistan. Earlier Zakhidov was working as Senior Research Scientist of Honeywell, (former Allied Signal Inc.) since March 1996. He got his Ph.D. degree in Optics in Moscow in 1981 and since that time was actively involved in scientific research in various places, including Nuclear Institute of Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, (1983-1988), 4 years spent in Japan (as Monbusho Visiting Professor in IMS, Okazaki and Kyoto and Osaka Universities), 1.5 year in Italy (Bologna, Institute Molecular Spectroscopy). A. Zakhidov have been awarded internationally recognized awards and fellowships for excellence in the field of Physics and Material Science (Monbusho and NEDO (Japan), and INTAS (Europe). He was also recognized as “The Engineer of the Year Award” by CIE/USA in the year 2002 and got Nano 50 Award from Nanotech Briefs Magazine (2006), and the NanoVic Prize from Australia (2006), Kapitza Golden Medal for Scientific discovery (2008) and Elsevier Scopus Award 2018 as most highly cited Russian scientist in the fastest developing area of Perovskite PV. A. Zakhidov is APS Fellow, AAAS Fellow, Academician of RAEN (Russian Academy of Natural Sciences), Foreign academician of KazNAEN): Kazakhstan Academy of Natural Sciences and a member of other various associations in the field of physics, chemistry and materials science. Zakhidov is also serving as a US Regional Managing Editor of International Journal of Nanoscience and in the Editorial Board of ‘Molecular Materials”, an International journal and edited a guest volume of Synthetic Metals. Zakhidov was and presently is a Principal Investigator in several grants on advanced materials awarded by such USA Government agencies as DARPA, NASA, DOD, DOE, AFOSR, NSF and others for total funding of over $ 15 M. He has more than 400 published papers, cited more than 38500 times with Hirsh index of h=71 (by Google) and h=65 (Scopus), and 25 USA patents in the field of advanced materials, including conducting polymers, carbon nanotubes, perovskite and organic PV and LED and various other frontier materials and devices. Zakhidov predicted theoretically and co-pioneered (with K. Yoshino and S. Morita) the experimental discovery of fast photoinduced charge transfer from conjugated polymers (particularly P3HT) to fullerene molecule C60 in 1991. This phenomena is now widely used in plastic solar cells, photodetectors and biochips.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 2
PROFESSOR DR USMANOV PAZLITDIN NURITDINOVICH
Head of Physics Department, Namangan Institute of Engineering and Technology
Biography
Professor Dr. Pazlitdin Usmanov was born on April 11, 1956, in Namangan city, Uzbekistan. He graduated from the high school and Samarkand State University, respectively in 1973 and 1978. In 1983, he earned his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Mikhailov I. N. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics. He obtained his Doctor of Science degree (D.Sc.) from Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Moscow region, Russia, in 1996. During the period from 1978–1998, he held position starting from Junior Research Assistant up to Leading Research Fellow at Institute of Nuclear Physics, Academy of Science of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the time he was as a representer of Uzbekistan at JINR. 1992–1995 Post doctorate at Moscow State University after name M.S. Lomonosov. The modern models of the nucleus proposed by P.N. Usmanov are now in the INP, AS of Uzbekistan, Laboratories such as Theoretical physics, nuclear problems and nuclear reactions of JINR and ITM laboratories of “Kurchatov Institute”, and also nuclear physics institutes of Darmstadt and Munich (Germany), CSNSM–Orsay (France) laboratories are successfully used to understand the experimental results on a physical basis. A total of 5 Ph.D. students in the field of Theoretical Physics has graduated under his supervision and more than 10 for the M.Sc. degree also in the same field of study. Currently he has 3 Ph.D. and 2 M.Sc. student undergoing research in Theoretical Physics. He has published more than 200 articles in international journals, conferences, and book chapters. From 2007 to 2018, he was a member of the Special Soviet for the defense of a doctoral degree in the specialty “Atomic nucleus and elementary particle physics” at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the AS of Uzbekistan. Currently he is a member of the Special Soviet at the Institute of Astronomy of the AS of the Republic of Uzbekistan. He participated as a leader and participant in a number of republican and foreign scientific projects and is currently working.