Ivan Smalyukh
Physicist
Summary
Ivan I. Smalyukh is a physicist working in the fields of soft condensed matter physics, especially in the domain of liquid crystals, topology, chirality and metamaterials. He is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the founding director of the International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter with headquarters at Hiroshima University. He is the Chief Editor of a Nature-family NPJ Soft Matter journal. Smalyukh was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, among many other awards. He and his research group hold the Guinness record for achieving the highest visible-range optical transparency in a material.
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