Irina Sorokina

Irina T. Sorokina (born 1963)[1] is a Russian laser physicist. She works in Norway as a professor of physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology,[2] and is the founder and CEO of spin-off company ATLA Lasers AS.[2][3]

Education and career

Sorokina was born in Moscow in 1963.[1] Her father was a physicist who worked on the detection of the cosmic microwave background in the early 1950s and by the 1960s had moved to nonlinear optics and lasers; inspired by him, Sorokina says that she "fell in love with physics, and optics in particular" by the age of 5 or 6.[4]

After earning a master's degree in physics and mathematics at Moscow State University, Sorokina completed a Ph.D. through the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1992. In 2003 she earned a habilitation at TU Wien in Austria.[1]

She was affiliated with TU Wien as a researcher and lecturer from 1991 until 2007, when she moved to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.[1]

Recognition

Sorokina was elected to the 2007 class of OSA Fellows "for pioneering contributions to tunable and ultrashort-pulse lasers and their applications in spectroscopy, particularly based on novel materials in the near- and mid-infrared spectral ranges".[5] She is also a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters,[6] elected in 2009,[1] and is a 2004 winner of the Snell Premium of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.[1][2]

References
  1. Speaker biography for talk "Mid-IR Femtosecond Fiber and Solid-state Lasers", Institute of Laser Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, 25 November 2014, retrieved 2020-03-28
  2. "Irina T. Sorokina", Employee profile, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, retrieved 2020-03-27
  3. ATLA Lasers, retrieved 2020-03-28
  4. "Irina Sorokina was inspired to pursue her career by her father", OSA Stories, The Optical Society, 8 March 2017, retrieved 2020-03-27
  5. 2007 OSA Fellows, The Optical Society, retrieved 2020-03-27
  6. Gruppe II: Fysikk, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, retrieved 2020-03-26
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