Igor Stolichnov received his Master degree in solid state physics at Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University in 1994. In 1996 he joined EPFL, where he was awarded PhD in 2000 for his work on ferroelectric non-volatile memories. Currently he is a senior scientist, member of staff of Nanoelectronic devices laboratory, EPFL. His scientific interests are focused on functional materials and their applications for information processing in energy-efficient circuitry, including ferroelectrics, dielectrics, multiferroics and phase-changing materials. He is active in development of advanced techniques of materials characterization at the nanometer scale, in particular in scanning probe microscopy. His researches that resulted in > 100 publications are focused on functional dielectrics/ferroics, and their integration on semiconductors and metals for applications in information processing and storage.
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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0606-231X

- Functional materials: ferroelectrics and multiferroics (materials and systems with coupled ferroic orders, e.g. ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism)
- Electronic transport in thin film insulators and semiconductors
- Ferroic thin films, electronic properties, physics of switching, size effects
- Phase-changing materials
- Non-volatile memories 
- Scanning probe microscopy
- Semiconductor-ferroelectric heterostructures