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Ivan I. Smalyukh

Ivan I. Smalyukh

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University of Colorado at Boulder

Ivan I. Smalyukh is a tenured professor at the Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, which he joined in 2007 (promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor with tenure in 2014 and from Associate to Full Professor in 2017). 

He is also the Founding Director of the International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter, as well as the founding fellow of Renewable Sustainable Energy Institute, a joint institute of CU-Boulder and NREL. 

He is an elected fellow of APS, AAAS, Optica and SPIE. 

He holds a Guinness record for developing the World's most transparent material. 

He received many awards, including the Bessel and Glenn Brown Awards, Gray Medal, NASA iTech award and Mid-Career Award of the International Liquid Crystal Society, the PECASE Award from the Office of Science and Technology of the White House and the GSoft Award from the American Physical Society.