Vasili Savitski received the Engineering Diploma degree in optics from the Belarus National Technical University in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Physics, Minsk, in 2005, with a focus on the nonlinear optics of quantum dots in glasses. He was with the International Laser Center, Minsk, from 1999 to 2007 and also with the Institute of Photonics, Glasgow, U.K., from 2008 to 2019. He is currently a Senior Researcher with the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics, Glasgow.