Michael Kaplan
Simmons College, USA
Biography
Michael Kaplan is a physics and chemistry researcher and educator. From 2005 he is a tenured professor of Simmons College (Boston, USA). His expertise is related to the structural phase transitions, acoustic and magnetic properties of materials, ferroelectricity, non-destructive testing of materials, ultrasound, multiferroics, smart materials. He is co-author (with Benjamin Vekhter) of a book Cooperative Phenomena in Jahn-Teller Crystals (Plenum Press, 1995), co-editor (with George Zimmerman) of a book Vibronic Interactions: Jahn-Teller Effect in Crystals and Molecules, NATO Science Series (Kluvers Academic Publishers, 2001), author and co-author of about 300 refereed articles and 40 patents registered in Germany, UK, France, Japan, USSR, USA.