His research interests include nonlinear optics and photonics, broadband laser microscopy and materials biophysics. Slepkov obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Alberta, and has held postdoctoral research positions at Cornell University and the National Research Council of Canada. He has published original research on a wide range of topics from ultrafast nonlinearities of highly conjugated oligomers to few-photon light-matter interactions with atomic vapor in hollow-core photonic fiber and applications of nonlinear multimodal imaging in geology.