Auteur: Maksim Skorobogatiy

Maksim Skorobogatiy is Professor in the Department of Engineering Physics at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada. He arrived at Polytechnique in 2003 after completing his Ph D at MIT. He has worked in the area of optical waveguides for over 12 years, and has published over 70 papers. Maksim is an expert on photonic crystal waveguides, and has recently authored a book on this topic for CUP (2009). His research group is active in disseminating their results in the public media. Most recently their research on photonic textiles was featured on a national TV station Téle Québec, and a Discovery channel documentary about electronic textiles will be broadcast soon.