Irina Veretennicoff

Irina Veretennicoff is a physicist, and professor emeritus of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her major contributions to theoretical physics concern the interaction of light and matter, and photonics.

Career
Veretennicoff graduated in Physics from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 1973 with a doctorate under the guidance of Radu Balescu of Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

Irina Veretennicoff has authored over 400 papers in theoretical physics and since 1988 has been an honorary member of the Class of Natural Sciences Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.

Awards

 * Russian State Prize for Physics and Mathematics (1990)