Speaker: Prof. Konstantin Bliokh
🔍 Topic: Topological Wave Etudes

"I will discuss topological structures in wave fields, including phase and polarization singularities, Möbius strips, skyrmions, and spatiotemporal vortices. I will provide examples from various wave systems such as optics, acoustics, matter, and water waves, and explore their relationship with wave momentum, spin, and orbital angular momentum."

Konstantin Bliokh received the MSc and PhD degrees in physics from the Kharkov National University (Ukraine) in 1998 and 2001, respectively. After that, he worked as a research scientist at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA) (Ukraine, 2001–2009). He was a post-doctoral fellow at Bar-Ilan University (Israel, 2003–2005), a visiting research scientist at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Israel, 2007), a Linkage International research fellow at the The Australian National University (Australia, 2008–2009), a Marie Curie Research Institute research fellow at the National University of Ireland (Ireland, 2009–2011), and an Associate Professor at the Australian National University (Australia, 2015–2019). Starting from 2011, he is a senior research scientist at RIKEN (Japan). He has co-authored over 130 scientific papers, reviews and book chapters.

We are also pleased to announce that Prof. Konstantin Bliokh has joined the E3 team as a senior researcher.