Honina Svetlana Nikolaevna

Education and certificates:

• 1983: graduated with honours from secondary school 16 (Tolyatti)
• 1989: graduated from Kuibyshev Aviation Institute (presently Samara State Aerospace University), programme “Applied Mathematics”, System engineering faculty (diploma of engineer-mathematician LV No. 323821 dated 16 February 1989)
• 1991–1994: postgraduate school (distance learning) at SSAU, programme 01.04.01 “Physics experiment technique, physics of instruments, automation of physical research”
• 1995: defended a PhD thesis “Optical methods of calculating uncorrelated characteristics and image structuring”, programme 01.04.01, at SSAU’s Dissertation Council; completed a PhD in Physics and Mathematics (diploma KT No. 007612 dated 12 May 1995)
• 1996: received the title senior researcher at the Image Processing Systems Institute of the RAS (diploma No. 007 dated 25 December 1996)
• 1998–2001: higher doctorate at SSAU, programme 01.04.01 “Physics experiment technique, physics of instruments, automation of physical research”
• 2000: received the title associate professor of Technical cybernetics department at SSAU (certificate DC No. 007826 dated 20 December 2000)
• 2001: defended the doctoral thesis “Formation of self-reproducing laser beams using diffractive optical elements consistent with a mode composition”, programme 01.04.05 “Optics” at SSAU’s Dissertation Council
• 2002: completed the degree of Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics (diploma DK No. 010704 dated 8 February 2002)
• 2007: received the title professor of Technical cybernetics department at SSAU (certificate PR No. 001881 dated 21 March 2007).

Career:

• 1989–1993: software engineer at the Samara branch of the Central Design Bureau of unique instrumentation, the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1993, the Image Processing Systems Institute of the RAS)
• 1993–1994: researcher at the IPSI of the RAS
• 1994–2002: senior researcher at the IPSI of the RAS
• 1995–1999: teaching assistant of Technical cybernetics department at SSAU (part-time)
• 1999–2003: associate professor of Technical cybernetics department at SSAU (part-time)
• 2002: leading researcher at the IPSI of the RAS
• 2003: professor of Technical cybernetics department at SSAU (part-time)
• 2009: executive secretary of “Computer optics”
• 1988–1993: technician, later a software engineer at the Samara branch of the Central Design Bureau of unique instrumentation, the USSR Academy of Sciences
• 1993–1996: researcher at the Image Processing Systems Institute (IPSI) of the RAS
• 1996–2002: senior researcher at the IPSI of the RAS
• 2002–2013: leading researcher at the IPSI of the RAS
• 2013–present: chief researcher at the IPSI of the RAS
• 1999–2000: teaching assistant of Technical cybernetics department at SSAU (part-time)
• 2001–2006: associate professor of Technical cybernetics department at SSAU (part-time)
• 2006–present: professor of Technical cybernetics department at SSAU (part-time)
• 1995–2007: consultant on energy-saving lighting systems at Fiat (part-time)
• 2014–present: leading researcher at NIL-97 of SSAU (part-time).

Awards:

1. The Governorate Prize of Samara Region “Natural Sciences and Mathematics”, 2010
2. Certificate of Honour of the Russian Academy of Sciences “For a significant contribution to the development of the Image Processing Systems Institute, a federal state budget institution of the RAS” (order of the RAS Presidium No. 10105-368 dated 29 April 2013)
3. The Prize of the Samara Regional Governor for outstanding performance in addressing natural and mathematical problems, 2015.

Research experiences: development of adaptive iterative methods of calculating phase diffractive optical elements (DOE) for the formation of self-reproductive multimode laser beams; research of the optical analysis of laser fields using multi-order DOE; adapting the direction field to the problem of structurally redundant image analysis; development of methods of polarization mode conversion of laser beams using DOE and anisotropic materials; optimisation of sharply focusing system’s complex transmission function at different polarizations of laser radiation in order to improve resolution;

S. N. Khonina participated in a number of contract research projects for research organisations, including Oy Modines Ltd (Finland), Neural Networks Technologies Limited (Israel), NetCracker (USA). She supervised the projects of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

Main research interests: diffractive optics, modes and optical eigenfunctions, singular optics, sharp focusing, the polarization conversion, optical micromanipulation of objects, optical and digital image processing.