Konstantin Vodopyanov obtained his MS from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (“Phys-Tech”) and his PhD and DSc (Habilitation) from the Oscillations Lab. of Lebedev Physical Institute (later General Physics Inst.), led by Nobel Prize winner Alexander Prokhorov. He was an assistant professor at the Moscow Phys-Tech (1985-90) and later did research as an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bayreuth in Germany (1990-92), and at Imperial College, London, UK (1992-98). In 1998, he moved to the United States to became head of the laser group at Inrad, Inc., NJ (1998-2000), and later director of mid-IR systems at Picarro, Inc.,CA (2000-2003). His other industry experience includes co-founding and providing technical guidance for several US and European companies. In 2003 he returned to Academia (Stanford University, 2003-2013) and is now an Endowed Chair & Professor of Optics and Physics at CREOL, the College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida. Konstantin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America (OSA), SPIE – International Society for Optical Engineering, UK Institute of Physics (IOP). His research interests are lasers and their spectroscopic and biomedical applications. His passion is music, hiking is wild jungles of Florida, swimming in the ocean, and long bicycle rides.
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