Family status:   married, have a daughter.

Mailing address:

Department of Technical Physics,
Faculty of Information Technologies and Robotics,
Belarusian National Technical University,
Khmelnitskogo str. 9, Uchebnyj Korpus 11
220013 Minsk, Belarus

Homepage:   http://smkachan.nanoscience.by

Education & Degrees:

• Candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics (Ph.D., 2008) given by the B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Scientific supervisor: Dr.Sci. Alina N. Ponyavina).

  See Autoreferat of Ph.D. thesis: Effect of coherent resonant interactions on optical properties of metal-dielectric nanostructures (in Russian).

• University Degree (Dipl.-Phys., 1997) given by the Department of Physical Optics of the Faculty of Physics of the Belarusian State University (Scientific supervisor: Prof. Alexander M. Bel'sky).

Employment:

• 2011-Present: Associate Professor at the Department of Technical Physics of the Faculty of Information Technologies and Robotics of the Belarusian National Technical University, Minsk, Belarus.

• 2009-2011: Senior Lecturer at the Department of Technical Physics of the Faculty of Information Technologies and Robotics of the Belarusian National Technical University, Minsk, Belarus.

• 2007-2009: Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Infrared Rays Physics of the B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus.

• 1997-2007: from Ph.D. Student to Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Infrared Rays Physics of the Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus.

Awards & Fellowships:

• Winner of the First Prize at the competition for the best series of scientific works "Stepanov's Readings" organized by B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics. Awarded to S.M. Kachan and A.N. Ponyavina for works on "Optical Properties of Plasmon Nanostructures" (2008).

• Fellowship of the Government of Belarus for Ph.D. Students (2000).

• Winner of the competition for the best scientific oral talk between young scientists at the IV International Conference on Laser Physics and Spectroscopy (1997).

Computational skills:

• Actively used programming languages: Matlab and Mathematica. Previous experience with Mathcad, Fortran, and Pascal.