He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Moscow Technical University of Electronics and Mathematics in 1973. In 1978 he received PhD degree in Solid State Physics (Liquid Crystals) in the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, USSR Academy of Sciences. He became a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Science in 1988 and obtained a degree of a Professor in 1998. From 1973 until 1996 he was a Researcher and a Leading Scientist, as well as a Head of the Division in Organic Intermediates & Dyes Institute (NIOPIK). From 1996 until 2009 he was working as a Leading Scientist in the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences. He joined Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999.
Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is an author and coauthor of 4 books, more than 20 reviews and book chapters, 180 journal papers, 420 conference presentations and 60 patents or patent applications in the field of liquid crystals. He is a Member of the International Liquid Crystal Society and the Society for International Display (SID), as well as a member of Editorial Board of "Liquid Crystals Today", “Photonics Letters of Poland” and an Associate Editor of “Journal of the SID”.
Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov will visit Warsaw University of Technology in June and July 2012.
He will be hosted by Prof. Tomasz Woliński and Prof. Stanisław Janeczko.