Supervisor
Prof Igor Shvets is the Applied Physics Research Group leader and supervisor. Prof Shvets was promoted to Full Professor (Personal Chair - Applied Physics) in 2007 in recognition of his academic, educational and social contribution to Trinity College Dublin. Prof Shvets is one of Ireland's leading researchers in the field of nanotechnology, surface science and magnetism. The Applied Physics Research Group is one of Ireland's most productive research groups, routinely publishing some 12 - 15 papers in internationally reknowned peer-reviewed journals (Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters, etc).
The Applied Physics Research Group is renowned as one of the leading international groups on conducting oxide research and is reknowned as the world's leading research group for magnetite (Fe3O4).
Prof Shvets was one of the founders of the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN), located in a state-of-the-art facility in the Naughton Institute located on the Trinity College campus. Prof Shvets' is an active Principal Investigator in CRANN and has both research laboratory and office space in the facility. The Applied Physics Research Group also has access to the CRANN central research facilities.
In addition to his academic research Prof Shvets is also one of Ireland's leading inventors and has some 50 patents or patent-pending applications to his name. He has successfully spun-out three campus companies based on his research and all are under-pinned by granted and/or pending patents.