Alexei Sergeevich Lagutchev, PhD. Born in Moscow, USSR, Aug.24^th 1959.

1982 MS from Moscow State University, Physics Department, General Physics and Nonlinear Optics Division. "Nonlinear distortions and methods of their elimination during laser beam propagation through the atmosphere in the presence of the random wind."

1992 Ph.D. physics/math from Institute of General Physics, Moscow. "Laser Action on the Volume Gas Flow in Capillaries". New method of laser-assisted gas-mixtures separation was proposed and investigated both experimentally and by means of computer simulation.

1993-1997 PostDoc Surface Chemistry and Spectroscopy Group, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan R.O.C. Experimental sum-frequency generation spectroscopy of mixed aliphatic monolayers.

1997- present PostDoc, Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sum-frequency generation study of shock wave interaction with matter and electrochemical processes.