Pavel Belov is the Prize Winner of the President of the Russian Federation in 2009 in the field of science and innovation for young scientists. The prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to the physics of metamaterials and the development of devices for transmission and processing of superresolution images.

Pavel Belov is the author of more than 50 scientific articles in refereed journals and 10 book chapters and more than 80 papers in international conferences.

He is a member of the Council of young scientists and specialists of the St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO).

Pavel Belov is engaged in research in the newest areas of modern physics, including the physics of metamaterials (artificial materials with electromagnetic properties not observed in nature).

The main Belov’s achievement is the development of metamaterials which can transfer superresolution images (ie, much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation used), which is much better than the resolution of conventional optical systems for image transmission and processing. Findings of Pavel Belov have both fundamental and practical importance because they can radically change the concept of designing optical and microwave components of various devices and thus lead to a revolution in information and telecommunication technologies.