Yury Deshko

Yury Deshko holds a master’s in theoretical physics (with a focus on general relativity) from Belarus State University and a doctorate in physics from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His research at CUNY focused on experimental spectroscopy and diamond photonics. He served as a research associate at City College, studying electron transport phenomena in topological insulators until joining the semiconductor company Elenion Technologies (now part of NOKIA) as a photonics engineer. Yury Deshko is the author of a textbook on the special theory of relativity “Special Relativitiy For Inquiring Minds”.