Biography

Dr Kirill Koshelev is an ARC DECRA Fellow with an internationally recognised research profile. Kirill is working on the theoretical and numerical models for a broad range of cross-field applications of optics and photonics, from nonlinear optics to chiral photonics. Kirill’s publications include more than 40 papers in peer-review journals from the first quartile, with above 9000 citations.

Grants and awards

2025 Young Innovator Award by Advanced Photonics of SPIE and CLP. In recognition of groundbreaking ideas that have inspired others and brought transformative change to their respective research areas;

2025 ARC DP DECRA "Chiral photonics with resonant meta-structures";

2024 Emerging Leader Award by Journal of Optics of IOP Publishing. In recognition of contributions to optically resonant nanostructures for nonlinear nanophotonics;

2023 Bragg Gold Medal For Excellence In Physics by Australian Institute of Physics. For the most outstanding PhD thesis in physics by a student from an Australian University;

2023 Jagadishwar Mahanty Prize by Jagadishwar Mahanty Endowment Fund. For the most outstanding thesis in Research School of Physics of Australian National University;

2023, 2022, 2021 World’s top 2% of most important scientists across all fields by Stanford University. For reaching citation metrics among top 2% scientists in the world;

2022 JG Crawford Prize by Australian National University. For the quality of the graduate work on the basis of academic excellence;

2020 Postgraduate Student Prize by Australian and New Zealand Optical Society. For outstanding accomplishments during postgraduate study to the field of optics and photonics in Australia and New Zealand;

2020 Graduate Student Scholarship by IEEE Photonics Society. For outstanding research excellence and contributions to the Society’s publications and conferences;

2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE. For potential long-range contributions to optics, photonics and related field;

2020 Robert and Helen Crompton Award by Robert and Helen Crompton Endowment Fund. To support a research visit to an overseas institution;

2019 Best Poster Award at ICMAT conference by ACS Photonics;

2018 Research Training Program International Scholarship by Australian Government. For outstanding achievements during bachelor and master research and coursework;

2018 Young Scientist Award at PIERS conference;

2018 Best Student Paper Award at PIERS conference;

2016 Best Student Paper Award at PIERS conference;

2016 Optics and Photonics Travel Scholarship by SPIE. For travel to the U.S.A. for participation in SPIE conference.

Recent academic seminars

10/09/2024 “Control of spin and orbital momentum of light with resonant metasurfaces“ Science Tuesday of ARC CoE of Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia;

02/04/2024 “Polarization control and color generation in resonant photonics“ Distinguished Lecture Series of Light, Harbin Engineering University (online);

26/03/2024 “Optical resonances in meta-structures for nonlinear photonics“ Distinguished Lecture Series of Light, Harbin Engineering University (online);

20/10/2023 “Painting with light: nano-art at your fingertip” Founder’s day of Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia;

21/03/2023 “Engineering optical resonances in nanostructured dielectric materials for nonlinear photonics” Research School of Physics Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia;

20/02/2023 “Metaphotonics with resonant dielectric nanostructures: from bound states in the continuum to Mie voids" Group Seminar of Nano and Biophysics division, Chalmers University of Technology (online)