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Victor V. Moshchalkov
Born (1952-06-12) June 12, 1952 (age 72)
NationalityBelgium, Russian
Alma materMoscow State University
Known forSuperconductors
Nanomagnetism
Scientific career
Fields
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Victor V. Moshchalkov, (Russian: Виктор Васильевич Мощалков) (born on the 12th of June 1952) is a Belgian-Russian physicist. He is a professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at the KU Leuven.[1] He is noted for contributions to Type-1.5 superconductors, S-Fi-S Pi Josephson junction and scanning Hall probe microscopey. He has made notable contributions to the fields of nanostructured superconductors,[2][3] nanophotonics and heavy fermions in solids.[4]

Education

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Victor V. Moshchalkov studied at the Kolmogorov Mathematical School, in Moscow (Russia), until 1969. He graduated in Physics from Moscow State University, in 1975, where he was ranked first among 450 students in physics.

Research

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Victor V. Moshchalkov obtained his habilitation from the Moscow State University in 1985. From 1978 to 1991, he was Research Physicist, Assistant Professor, Professor and Head of the Laboratory of High Temperature Superconductivity, at Moscow State University. From 1986 to 1991, he was Visiting Professor at Toronto University, at TH Darmstadt, at Marburg University and at RWTH Aachen. In 1991, he joined KU Leuven university as a Visiting Professor. In 1993, he was promoted to full professor and since 2017, he is professor Emeritus.

Awards and recognition

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  • 2014, Elected Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
  • 2007, Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society .[5]
  • 2009, Methusalem Research Fellow (until 2017)
  • 2006, Finalist for the EU Descartes Research Prize[6]
  • 2005, Laureate of the Belgian Fond for Scientific Research (FWO) Dr. A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart Prize for Exact Sciences[7]
  • 2000, ISI Thomson Scientific Award “Top Cited Paper in Flanders”
  • 1988, Laureate of the USSR Ministry of High Education Scientific Prize
  • 1986, Laureate of the USSR State Prize for Young Researchers[8]

Selected publications

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References

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