Anatoly V. Zayats

Professor Zayats’s current research interests are in areas of nanophotonics, plasmonics and metamaterials, optical spin-orbit effects, nonlinear and ultrafast optics and spectroscopy, scanning probe microscopy and optical properties of surfaces, thin films, semiconductors and low-dimensional structures.

Professor Zayats led the EPSRC Programme Grant Active Plasmonics [5](2009-2015) and currently leads [6] the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded[7] programme grant Reactive Plasmonics(2015-2021).[8] This is a multidisciplinary collaborative project between King’s College London and Imperial College London which aims to develop a new research field of plasmon-enhanced microscopic electronic phenomena.[9]

Professor Zayats is the holder of the ERC Advanced Grants Integrated Plasmonic Metamaterials [10] (2013-2018) and Integrating Complex Beams and Metasurfaces [11](2018-2023).

He is a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award[12] and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America,[13] SPIE [14] and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

He is most known for his contributions to the development of nano-optics of surface plasmon polaritons, nonlinear plasmonics and nanophotonics, hyperbolic and epsilon-near-zero metamaterials and their applications in ultrasensitive bio- and chemical sensing and nonlinear optics, plasmonic hot-electrons for photochemical transformations as well photonic spin-orbit effects in nanophotonics for directional routing of guided modes, directional optical forces and discovery of photonic skyrmions.

He is a member of the Data Storage Institute's Scientific Advisory Board.

He is a founding co-editor-in-chief of the SPIE-Chinese Laser Press journal Advanced Photonics.[15]

In 2017, he co-founded the London Institute for Advanced Light Technologies,[16] a joint virtual research centre between King's College London, Imperial College London and University College London, focusing on the emerging topics in optical research, and in particular providing an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment and a framework for interactions with the photonic industry, and training for PhD students.

• Zayats, A. V.; Richards, D. (2009). Nano-optics and Near-field Optical Microscopy. Artech House. ISBN 978-1596932845.

• Zayats, A. V.; Smolyaninov, I. I.; Maradudin A. A. (2009). Nano-Optics of Surface Polaritons. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0123735638.

• Zayats, A. V.; Maier, S. (2013). Active Plasmonics and Tuneable Plasmonic Metamaterials. Wiley. ISBN 978-1118634424.