Oleksiy Anopchenko

Biography

Oleksiy Anopchenko, Ph.D., is Associate Specialist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on nanophotonic applications of epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials and metamaterials, including field-effect tunable optical devices, novel plasmonic materials, and conducting polymers. He holds two U.S. patents related to ENZ photonics, including a patent for a field-effect tunable epsilon-near-zero absorber and one for an integrated optical fiber and epsilon-near-zero material.

Anopchenko has held research positions at a range of institutions in Europe and the United States, including the University of Trento, Sapienza University of Rome, Baylor University, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). At NIST, he developed a standard test method—now published as IPC-TM-650 Test Method 2.5.5.10—enabling accurate dielectric measurements of embedded passive materials at microwave frequencies. At the University of Trento, he contributed to silicon-based photonic devices, including electrically driven slot waveguides and microring resonators. At Sapienza University of Rome, he developed a biosensor combining label-free electromagnetic surface wave detection with enhanced fluorescence spectroscopy on one-dimensional photonic crystal surfaces.

Anopchenko has co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, 3 book chapters, and more than 60 conference presentations, including invited talks. His work has an h-index of 24 according to the Web of Science. He has served as a referee for grant agencies including the Czech Science Foundation and for journals published by IEEE, Optica, IOP, ACS, and AIP.

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics of Condensed Matter and Acoustics, Comenius University Bratislava, 2001
• Engineer-Physicist in Materials Science for Microelectronics and Photovoltaics, Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, 1993