The Electrodynamics of Water and Ice

Vasily Artemov studied physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, one of the leading universities in Russia. He received his Ph.D. from the Prokhorov General Physics Institute (GPI), founded by Alexander Prokhorov (Nobel laureate for his research on lasers and masers). Both his master and Ph.D. theses were focused on infrared and dielectric spectroscopy of bulk and confined water. He has held several internships abroad, where he studied the interaction of electromagnetic waves with soft matter. After these experiences, he headed the lab of intermolecular interaction spectroscopy at GPI, where he worked intensively on the dielectric responses of water and ice as well as on the important role of local chemical reactions between solute and solvent in aqueous solutions of electrolytes. Several years ago, he joined the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, the first private international university in Russia, where he currently leads research activities in the field of broadband dielectric spectroscopy of aqueous materials for electrochemical applications. His publication record encompasses over 40 scientific papers in international journals on the dielectric and transport properties of water and ice.