Ravil started at ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, where he helped build a laboratory setup for writing fiber Bragg gratings with an excimer laser and a Talbot interferometer. The paper describing it is his most-cited work.

He then moved to Leibniz-IPHT in Jena as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in FINESSE, a European training network on fiber "nervous" sensing systems. There he worked on multicore optical fibers for bend and shape sensing. The work led to a patent and a doctorate in physics, supervised by Prof. Hartmut Bartelt and defended in 2022.

After a postdoc on mid-infrared fiber lasers, he moved to industry. At Fusion Bionic in Dresden he worked on laser surface structuring with high-power picosecond and nanosecond lasers. Since 2025 he has been at Airmo in Berlin, working on optical instruments that detect methane from the air and from space.

• Shape sensing, calibrated. By characterizing every core of a multicore fiber individually, he roughly halved the curvature error of fiber shape sensors, from 2.48% to 1.36%. Optical Fiber Technology, 2021
• Twice the sensing length. A composed multicore fiber, spliced from rotated segments, chains gratings across cores and doubles the sensing length without losing spatial resolution. Patent DE102019132569B3; Sensors, 2022
• Reading a fiber's orientation. A method that recognizes a fiber's angular orientation and twist automatically from side-scattered light. It was verified on four very different fiber types with Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Advanced Photonics Research, 2022
• Gratings in multicore fibers. Showed how the cladding's lensing makes gratings uneven across cores, and how fiber orientation during writing controls it. Optical Fiber Sensors conference, 2018
• Methane from the air. Co-author of airborne imaging-spectrometer measurements of methane releases, with partners including TotalEnergies. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2026

Covering the whole chain of an optical instrument. He simulates the optics, builds and aligns the hardware, writes the control and analysis software, and finds out quickly why a setup is not behaving. He works easily with mechanical, electrical and software engineers, and can explain complex optics to people who are not specialists.

Teams building optical instruments, fiber sensors, laser systems, or space and airborne remote sensing, who need someone to take an idea from simulation to a working, aligned prototype.

Generated by AI from Ravil's CV and public records: Google Scholar, ORCID, the dissertation, the patent and the FINESSE project. Citation figures as of October 2026. For the full record, see the CV and publications.