Sergey Mirov received his M.S. degree with honors in electronic engineering from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and his Ph.D. degree in physics in 1983 from the P. N Lebedev Physics Institute of the Soviet Union Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Since 1993, Dr. Mirov has been a faculty member at the Department of Physics of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Currently, he is a University Professor of Physics at the UAB and IPG Photonics Corporation consultant. His main fields of interest include mid-infrared laser materials, solid-state lasers, and laser spectroscopy. Dr. Mirov is a fellow of Optica (formerly OSA) and the National Academy of Inventors, a member of the IEEE Photonics Society, American Physics Society, and SPIE. He has authored or co-authored over 500 scientific publications in quantum electronics, including several books, and holds 26 patents.
(Reproduced from T. P. Butler et al., J. Phys.: Photonics, 1, 044066 [2019])
