Eugene Gamaly
Eugene Gamaly received his M.Sc. from the Moscow State University (1958), Ph.D. from the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre (1970), and D.Sc. and Professorship in Physics from the P. N. Lebedev Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (1980). He worked for the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre (1958–1973) as a leading theoretician in the fields of high-temperature/density plasma physics and nuclear fission and fusion. In 1973 he joined the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow on the invitation of Prof. N. G. Basov, Nobel Prize winner. His work within Prof. Basov’s team (1973–1992) featured pioneering research on the basics of laser-induced fusion and laser–matter interaction. Since 1992 Prof. Gamaly has been working for the Laser Physics Centre, Australian National University, in Canberra. His fields of expertise include laser–matter interaction with solids and plasma, high temperature/density physics, and material transformations. He has more than 300 publications on these topics.