Andrei Zvyagin

Andrei's research interests lie exclusively in the area of Biophotonics, focused on optical biomedical imaging and sensing, directed towards imaging in live tissue and cells, and aspired by the possibility of detecting single biomolecules. His research horizons are, otherwise, broad and include optical scanning near-field microscopy, optical coherence tomography, fibre optic spectroscopy for biological assaying in vivo, multiphoton microscopy, photoreceptor optics, and novel optical labels for intracellular imaging.

Andrei was born in Russia. He received a Diploma from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Russia, and the PhD degree in Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, in 1984 and 1997, respectively.
From 1984 to 1994, he spanned a range of positions from an Engineer to Senior Research Scientist in the Institute of Metrology for Time and Space, Moscow, Russia, focussing on research and metrological aspects of time and frequency standards based on trapped ions. From 1998 to 2000, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Optical+Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, The University of Western Australia, and from 2000-2004, became an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow, studying optical coherence tomography for biomedical imaging applications. From 2004-2005, he joined the Centre for Biophotonics and Laser Science, Physics, The University of Queensland, as a Lecturer/Australian Research Fellow, and was promoted to a Senior Lecturer/ Australian Research Fellow since 2006. From 2007, he is an Associate Professor in Physics, Macquarie University, Sydney.