Vladimir M. Shalaev, Ph.D., the Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, specializes in nanophotonics and plasmonic nanomaterials. He earned a doctoral degree in physics and mathematics in 1983 and a master's degree in physics, with highest distinction, in 1979, both from the Krasnoyarsk State University in Russia. Shalaev, who came to Purdue in 2001, was the George W. Gardiner Professor of Physics at New Mexico State University. He previously taught and conducted research at the Krasnoyarsk State University and University of Toronto. Shalaev also was a Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He authored and edited 4 books, published 13 invited book chapters, and over 200 research papers. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, co-editor of the Elsevier Book series "Advances in Nano-Optics & Nano-Photonics," co-editor of Applied Physics B - Lasers and Optics, and a chair of a topical group Photonic Metamaterials of the OSA.