At the present his major scientific interests are in the fields of non-equilibrium physics, photo-induced phase transitions and spectroscopies of strongly electron-correlated systems, magnetic materials and novel emerging materials. In 2012 he is awarded with the Zernike Chair at the Zernike Institute of the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). From 2013 he is honorary professor at the Zernike Institute of the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). For the academic years 2013-2017 he is appointed visiting professor of Condensed Matter at the International Faculty of the University of Cologne (Germany). In 2013 he is appointed fellow of the American Physical Society. He is author or co-authored 270+ articles on the most prestigious journals of physics such as, Science, Nature Materials, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Nano-Letters, Scientific Science Advance, PRL, APL and PRB. From 2006 he is editor of Nuclear Instruments and Methods In Physics Research (A) and from 2012 he is editor of Physics Letters Reports.