Ernest Arushanov

In 2000, at a general meeting of the Assembly of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova Ernest Arushanov was elected Academician.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ernest Arushanov made an invaluable contribution to the preservation of the Institutes capacity, attracting foreign investments for further development of Moldovan science in general and for physics development in particular. In 1997, he resigns as deputy director and becomes the head of Laboratory of Materials and Structures for Solar Energy Conversion.

The collapse of the Soviet Union gave Soviet professors and researchers the opportunity to work in the west; EK Arushanov took advantage of it. In 1993–1994, he held seminars on physics at the University of Konstanz, Germany. This was followed by an invitation to France, where Arushanov was offered to lecture physics, first in 1995 and 1996 at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, and then in 2002 at the University of Paris. Also Ernest Arushanov in different periods lectured as an invited professor at specialized Institutes and Universities of Austria, England, Holland, Spain, Canada, Poland, Singapore and Switzerland.

Since 1974, Ernest Arushanov prepared 15 PhDs, and continues to pass his knowledge to present graduate students.

Teaching experience of E. K. Arushanov has more than 40 years. The first course in semiconductor physics, he lectured in the Kishinev Polytechnic Institute named after Sergey Lazo in the period from 1970 to 1972. Later in the same place, already professor Arushanov lectured on Materials and Semiconductor Physics (1986–1988).

He was born and raised in Baku, where he graduated from the high school in 1958. Immediately after graduating from high school arrived in Chişinău, where he entered the Kishinev State University (Moldovan State University now) the Physics and Mathematics department. In 1963 after successful graduation from the university he entered the post-graduate department of the same university, resulted in the PhD thesis in the field of semiconductor compounds (1969). In the period from 1967 to 1986 worked as a researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR, in laboratory of Sergei Ivanovich Radautsan. Then in 1984, defended his doctor-habilitat dissertation. From 1986 to 1988 – he was head of the laboratory he created - Laboratory of the narrow-gap materials. In 1988 he was appointed the deputy director of the Institute of Applied Physics. In 1989 Arushanov became professor, and in 1992 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.

Ernest Arushanov (Эрнест Константинович Арушанов; born February 4, 1941) is a Soviet and Moldovan experimental physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.