Ali Enver Aliev is a Crimean Tatar American physicist, research professor at the NanoTech Institute, and adjunct professor at Physics Department, The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Texas at Dallas. In 2011 he was recognized an “Inventor of the year” by Time magazine His fields of current research interest are nanoscience and nanotechnologies, electrochromism and acoustics. He holds a number of invention patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Biography
Ali Aliev was born in Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union in a Crimean Tatar family after Stalin's genocide. In May 1944, indigenous people of Crimea fell victims to en masses deportation from their Motherland. Aliev's parents were also deported from Crimea together with the entire Crimean Tatar population. His father Enver is a representative of the old Aqmescit family. Aliev's mother is Okaz, an ancient Dynasty from Korbekul village in Alushta region of the Crimean peninsula. In 1977 he graduated from the Radio Engineering faculty of Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR. 1984 Aliev got a PhD degree in Physics, Heat Physics Department of Uzbek Academy of Sciences. Thesis Title: "Study of the Fast Ionic Transport in rare-earth Fluorides". 1992 — Doctor of Science degree in Physics, Heat Physics Department of Uzbek Academy of Sciences. Thesis Title: "Relaxation Phenomena in Superionic Conductors". From 1988 till 2004 he worked at Heat Physics Department of Uzbek Academy of Sciences. In 1992—2004 he was the Head of the Physical Acoustic Research Laboratory of the named department. Since 2004 Aliev has been Research Professor at Alan MacDiarmid Nanotech Institute at University of Texas at Dallas. Ali Aliev is an author of more than 100 scientific articles and 13 patents in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, among them, for instance, a patent for an invisible cloak. Aliev is married to Elvira Umerova, they have two daughters.
Awards
Inventor of the year 2011 by "Time" magazine.
Nano 50 Award in the United States, 2006: Processes for Carbon Nanotube Yarn and Sheet Fabrication, University of Texas at Dallas.
2006 NanoVic Prize for Innovation in Nanotechnology from Nanotechnology Victoria, Australia.
