Boris A. Kalinikos received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in radio-physics from St.Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia, in 1969 and 1975, respectively, and the Sc.D. degree in solid state physics from A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Russia, St.Petersburg, in 1985.
From 1975 to 1978 he was an Assistant Professor and from 1978 to 1987 he was an Associate Professor with the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University. From 1989 he is the Professor and Head of the Department of Physical Electronics and Technology at the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University. He teaches a variety of courses in electrical engineering and microelectronics. His research activities include work on microwave excitations in thin ferromagnetic films and layered micro- and nanostructures, magnetostatic wave technology, multiferroic (ferrite-ferroelecric) materials and multiferroic microwave devices, spin-wave nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and microwave photonics.
Professor Kalinikos has authored and co-authored over 200 papers in refereed journals, 12 books. He belongs to the group of the most cited Russian scientists http://www.expertcorps.ru/science/whoiswho/info/41004.
He has been the recipient of several fellowships, in particular, the British Council Scholarship, University of Southampton, Physics Department, January 1979 - October 1979; the Fulbright Fellowship, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA, August 1990- January 1991; Russian Federation President Fellowship, St.Petersburg Electrotechnical University, St.Petersburg, Russia, April 1997 - March 2003; Presidential Fellow, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA 2008.
Professor Kalinikos has served as a member of organising and program committees of many national and international conferences. He has been the recipient of contracts and research grants from various national and international organisations such as the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and INTAS. He is also the recipient of a USSR State Prise in the Field of Science, 1988. In 2006 he was awarded with a title “Honoured Worker of Science of Russian Federation”. In 2012 he was honoured with a Charter of the Russian Federation President for Public Service in Educational and Scientific Work.
