Elena Ostrovskaya

Prof Elena Ostrovskaya is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of PHY at The Australian National University. Her research focuses on exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, Bose-Einstein condensates of ultracold atoms, nonlinear optics and photonics, and nonlinear dynamics. She is the convenor and lecturer for PHYS4303 and PHYS8303, and a lecturer for PHYS2016. Prof Ostrovskaya is affiliated with the Polariton BEC group and the Quantum Science & Technology Research group.

Elena Ostrovskaya is a researcher at the Australian National University, specializing in exciton polaritons, Bose-Einstein condensates, 2D semiconductors, and nonlinear photonics. Her work explores the dynamics and stability of dark solitons in exciton-polariton condensates, as well as the observation of non-Hermitian degeneracies in exciton-polariton systems. She investigates spatial solitons in optically induced photonic lattices and the spin-orbit interaction of light. Her research also includes the study of matter-wave gap solitons in atomic band-gap structures and the creation of orbital angular momentum states using chiral polaritonic lenses. Her contributions focus on understanding the interplay between light and matter in quantum systems.