Biography

Shalva Kekutia is a Chief Research Fellow and Head of the Nanocomposites Laboratory at the GTU Vladimer Chavchanidze Institute of Cybernetics, and holds a doctoral degree in physics. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Tbilisi State University in 1971. His research covers wave phenomena in superfluids, acoustics in porous media, nanofluids and magnetic nanoparticles. He has led projects funded by grants of the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC). He is a member of the GTU Representative Council.

Education

• 1971 – Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Physics

Scientific degree and rank

• Dissertation: “Sound propagation in superfluids under restricted geometry”

Publications

• Karchava T.A., Kekutiya S.E., Sanikidze D.G. Acoustic modes in a superleak waveguide filled with superfluid He3–He4 mixture. Sov. J. Low Temp. Phys., 5(7), 1979.
• Kekutia Sh.E., Karchava T.A. Propagation of fifth sound in superfluid helium films. Sov. J. Low Temp. Phys., 8(10), 1982.
• Buishvili T., Kekutia Sh., Tkeshelashvili O., Tkeshelashvili L. Theory of Sound Propagation in Superfluid-Filled Porous Media. Physics Letters A, 300(6), 2002.
• Rudavskii E.Ya., Zadorozhko A.A., Chagovets V.K., Sheshin G.A., Chkhaidze N.D., Kekutia Sh.E., Mulders N. Collective Modes in Aerogels of Different Porosity Filled With Superfluid Helium. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 158, 2010.
• Kekutia Sh., Mikelashvili V., Markhulia J., Saneblidze L., Chavchanidze M. Synthesis of medical application magnetic nanofluids. Photonics, GTU, 2011.