biography
V. L. Sobolev (Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, 1974 from Donetsk Physics and Technology Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR, Habilitation Degree Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, 1984 from The Supreme Attestation Committee of the USSR) is a professor at the Physics Department of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Teaching at the universities in Ukraine, Taiwan, and United States he has supervised 17 graduate students to a Ph.D. His main research interests are on wide spectrum of properties of materials with spontaneous polarization (ferroelectric, magnetic, and magnetoelectric substances); phase transitions in materials with spontaneous polarization; kinetics and relaxational behavior of systems of interacting quasiparticles in substances subjected to the action of intense external alternating fields (magnetic and electric fields, intense sound); optical properties of magnetic and magnetoelectric materials; properties of high-temperature superconducting materials; properties of crystals with defects. The results of his research have been published in more than 270 articles and three invention patents on methods of measurements of parameters of thin magnetic films.
