• 1986  MSc with Distinction, Dept. of General and Applied Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, USSR 
• 1989  PhD in Physics (Solid State Physics), 
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, USSR (see also [non-canonical MIPT web-pages] ) 
• 1989-1997  Junior Research Scientist, Research Scientist (1990), Senior Research Scientist (1992), Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
• 1992-1994  Research Fellow, Institute of Physics, 
University of Aalborg, Denmark. 
• 1995-1997  Visiting Professor, University of Algarve, Portugal
• 1998-1999  Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, 
University of Konstanz, Germany
• 1999-present  Visiting Professor, Laboratoire de Physique, 
l’Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
• 1999-present  Lecturer in Condensed Matter Physics (until 2005), Chair in Physics (since 2005), School of Mathematics and Physics, 
The Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom

Selected Publications:

1. S.Bozhevolnyi, I.Smolyaninov, A.Zayats, "Near-field microscopy of surface plasmon polaritons: localization and internal interface imaging," Phys. Rev. B, vol.51, 1995, pp.17916-17924. [on-line]
2. A.V.Zayats, V.Sandoghdar, "Apertureless scanning near-field second-harmonic microscopy," Opt. Commun., vol.178, 2000, pp.245-249. [on-line]
3. L.Salomon, F.Grillot, F. de Fornel, A.V.Zayats, "Near-field distribution of optical transmission of periodic subwavelength holes in a metal film," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol.86, 2001, pp.1110-1113. [on-line] Read about this article in and general press.
4. S.Takahashi, A.V.Zayats, "Near-field second-harmonic generation at a metal tip apex," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol.80, 2002, pp.3479-3481. [on-line]
5. I.I.Smolyaninov, A.V.Zayats, A.Gungor, C.C.Davis, "Single-photon tunneling via localized surface plasmons," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol.88, 2002, 187402. [on-line] Read about this article in 
6. I.I.Smolyaninov, A.V.Zayats, A. Stanishevsky, C.C.Davis, "Optical control of photon tunneling through an array of nanometer scale cylindrical channels," Phys. Rev. B, vol.66, 2002, 205414. [on-line] Read about this article in 
7. A.V.Zayats, I.I.Smolyaninov, "Near-field photonics: surface plasmon polaritons and localised surface plasmons," J. Opt. A: Pure and Applied Optics, vol. 5, 2003, pp.S16-S50 (review article). [on-line] or [IoP Physics Reviews]
8. A.V.Zayats, I.I.Smolyaninov, "Near-field second-harmonic generation," Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A, vol. 362, 2004, pp.843-860 (review article). [on-line]
9. I.I. Smolyaninov, C.C. Davis, J. Elliott, G. Wurtz, A.V. Zayats, "Super-resolution optical microscopy based on photonic crystal materials," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 72, 2005, 085442. [on-line] Read about this article in 
10. A.V.Zayats, I.I.Smolyaninov, A.A.Maradudin, "Nano-optics of surface plasmon polaritons," Phys. Rep., vol. 408, pp.131-314 (review article). [on-line]
11. G.A. Wurtz, R. Pollard, A.V. Zayats, "Optical bistability in nonlinear surface plasmon polaritonic crystals," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 97, 2006, 057402. [on-line] Read about this article in 
12. G. A. Wurtz, P. R. Evans, W. Hendren, R. Atkinson, W. Dickson, R. J. Pollard, W. Harrison, C. Bower, A. V. Zayats, "Molecular plasmonics with tunable exciton-plasmon coupling strength in J-aggregate hybridized Au nanorod assemblies," Nano Letters, vol. 7, 2007, pp. 1297-1303. [on-line]
13. V. Mikhailov, G. A. Wurtz, J. Elliott, P. Bayvel, A.V. Zayats, "Dispersing light with surface plasmon polaritonic crystals," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 99, 2007, 083901. [on-line] Read about this article in