Springer Series in Light Scattering, Volume 10: Direct and Inverse Problems of Light Scattering Media Optics

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Alexander A. Kokhanovsky graduated from the Physical Department of the Belarussian State University Minsk Belarus in 1983. He has  received  Ph. D. degree in optical sciences from the B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Minsk Belarus in 1991. The PhD work was devoted to studies of  light scattering properties of  aerosol media and foams. His habilitation work (Main Geophysical Observatory St. Petersburg Russia  2011) was aimed at the development of new cloud and snow remote sensing techniques based on spaceborne observations. Alexander Kokhanovsky was a member of the  atmospheric optics group at the Laboratory of Light Scattering Media Optics Laboratory at Institute of Physics in Minsk Belarus (1983-2004) and  the SCIAMACHY/ENVISAT satellite aerosol and cloud retrieval algorithms development team (Institute of Environmental Physics University of Bremen Bremen Germany  2001-2013). He has designed  aerosol and cloud remote sensing algorithms for the imaging polarimeter (3MI)  on board EUMETSAT Polar System-Second Generation (EPS-SG) working at EUMETSAT in Darmstadt Germany ( 2014-2017).  Currently his research interests  are directed towards modeling light propagation and scattering in terrestrial atmosphere and surface including ice and snow. He has been  employed by VITROCISET/Telespazio Belgium ( Darmstadt Germany) from 2013 till April 2022. He has worked  as  a guest researcher at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Mainz Germany) from April 2022 till March 2023. He is employed by the GFZ Potsdam since November 2022 where he is working with EnMAP data to retrieve snow and ice properties using hyperspectral observations  Dr. Kokhanovsky is the author of books  Light Scattering Media Optics: Problems and Solutions (Chichester: Springer-Praxis 1999 2001 2004)  Polarization Optics of Random Media (Berlin: Springer-Praxis 2003)  Cloud Optics (Amsterdam: Elsevier 2006) Aerosol Optics (Berlin: Springer-Praxis 2008)  Foundations of Remote Sensing (Berlin: Springer 2021 with D. Efremenko) and  Snow Optics  (Berlin: Springer 2021).  He published more than 350 papers in the field of environmental optics radiative transfer remote sensing and light scattering.