Oleg A. Sapozhnikov

Areas of research activity:

• Ultrasonic methods in diagnostics and therapy of the brain
• Fragmentation and manipulation of kidney stones
• Ultrasound-assisted biofabrication
• Acoustic holography
• Industrial airborne ultrasound
• Design of high-power ultrasonic phased arrays
• Metrology of ultrasound sources and their fields
• Ultrasound propagation through metal – liquid metal interface
• Ultrasound visualization in environments with unfavorable conditions
• Nonlinear wave physics
• Acoustic radiation force
• Optical (Schlieren) visualization of ultrasound fields
• Ultrasonic cavitation
• Measurement of acoustic properties of various media

Education:

• 2008 – D.Sc. in Acoustics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
• 1988 – Ph.D. in Acoustics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
• 1979 – 1985 – Combined BS and MS Program in Physics (diploma with honors), Department of General Physics and Wave Processes, Physics Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Professional positions:

• 2014 — present – Professor, Department of Acoustics, Physics Faculty, MSU
• 1993 — 2014 – Associate Professor, Department of Acoustics, Physics Faculty, MSU
• 1990 — 1993 – Assistant Professor, Department of Acoustics, Physics Faculty, MSU
• 1988 — 1990 – Junior Research Scientist, Department of Acoustics, Physics Faculty, MSU

Organization memberships:

• 2009 — present – Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
• 2001 — present – Member of the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU)
• 1998 — present – Member of the Russian Acoustical Society

Committee memberships:

• 2017 — present – Member of the Dissertation Council MSU.01.08 at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics
• 2014 — 2017 – Member of the Dissertation Council D 501.001.67 at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics
• 2013 — 2022 – Expert Council Member, Higher Attestation Commission (VAK), Physics Section
• 2010 — 2022 – Member of the Dissertation Council D 002.063.01 at the A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2008 — present – Member of the Board of the International Congress on Ultrasonics (ICU)
• 2008 — present – Member of the International Organizing Committee of the International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics (ISNA)
• 2008 — present – Associate Editor for Acoustics of the Journals of Faculty of Physics – “Moscow University Physics Bulletin” and “Memoirs of the Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University”
• 2007 — 2016 – Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA)
• 2005 — 2024 – Member of the Committee on International Research and Education of Acoustical Society of America (CIRE ASA)
• 2002 – present – Member of the Scientific Council on Acoustics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2009 – present – Head of the “Physical Ultrasound” division
• 1996 — present – Member of PhD dissertation defense juries (committees) at foreign universities: France – University of Lyon (in collaboration with INSERM) (1996 and 2004), USA – University of Washington (2012), Singapore – Nanyang Technological University (2013), United Kingdom – University of Oxford (2015)

Awards:

• 2004 – Early Career Award of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA)
• 1997 – Prize of the “MAIK-Nauka/Interperiodika” publishing company for the best scientific publication of the year
• 1994 – Prize of European Academy for Young Russian Scientists
• 1991 – M.V. Lomonosov Prize in Physics