Dr. A.P. Zhukov is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Advanced Polymers and Materials group, University of the Basque Country, Spain. He graduated in 1980 from the Physics-Chemistry Department of the Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute (now the National University of Science and Technology), earned his Ph.D. in 1988 from the Institute of Solid State Physics (Chernogolovka) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and completed his Doctor of Science (habilitation) at Moscow State “Lomonosov” University in 2010.

Dr. Zhukov has authored over 600 peer-reviewed publications, with a citation count exceeding 9,000 and an H-index of 51 (as of October 12, 2020). He has edited several conference proceedings and organized numerous international scientific events, including the Donostia International Conference on Nanoscaled Magnetism (DICNMA), ISMANAM 2017, and others. He has also chaired sessions at major conferences such as MMM and Intermag, and has been invited to deliver plenary and keynote lectures worldwide.

He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Magnetics Letters and the International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems, and is a member of several editorial boards and international scientific committees.

Dr. Zhukov has edited two books: Novel Functional Magnetic Materials and High Performance Soft Magnetic Materials; authored two monographs on magnetic microwires and sensors; and contributed chapters to key scientific handbooks, including the Handbook of Magnetic Materials edited by Prof. K. Buschow.