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Dear guest! My name is Alexey Shcherbakov and this is my personal site. Here you can find the information about me and my work.

I am originally from Petrozavodsk, Russia, graduated from Moscow Inatitute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). Currently I am a leader of the computational physics group at the Faculty of Physics, ITMO University.

My photo by Evgeny Pelevin

CV:

Education:

  • B.S. (honors, 2006) and M.S. (honors, 2008), Department of General and Applied Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia.
  • Candidate of Science, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia (2012).
  • PhD, University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne, memeber of the University of Lyon, France (2012).

Employment:

  1. engineer, JSC «Radiotechnical Institute named after academician A.L. Mints», Moscow, Russia (2006);
  2. advanced scholar physics teacher, MIPT Evening School of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia (2005-2008);
  3. trainee, Joint Institute for High Temperatures (JIHT), RAS, Moscow, Russia (2008);
  4. researcher, senior researcher, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia (2008-2020);
  5. postdoc, invited professor, University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne, memeber of the University of Lyon, France (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019);
  6. invited professor, University of Bourgundy, France (2019, 2020, 2021);
  7. researcher, lecturer, head of research group, ITMO University (since 2018).

Professional skills development:

  • High Performance Computing, OpenMP, Cuda, MPI (2011);
  • Russian Quantum Center Spring School (2013);
  • Russian-British Workshop New Advanced Materials and Systems for Photonics and Sensors (2014);
  • Translator with specialized subject skills (2013-2014);
  • Scientific Leadership School by the Russian Science Foundation and Skolkovo Institute (2017).
  • Mathematical Modelling in Pharmacolgy (2017).

Project leading:

  1. Grant by the Bortnik Foundation (FASIE) «Open source library for engineering of optical diffractive newural networks» 2024-2025
  2. Potanin Foundation grant for master’s teachers 2024-2025
  3. Research grant by Russian Scientific Foundation #22-11-00153 «Multiscale models for direct and inverse problems in optics» 2022-2024.
  4. Research grant by Russian Scientific Foundation #17-79-20345 «Optimization and applications of resonant effects in complex metal-dielectric metasurfaces» 2017-2019.
  5. Research grant by Russian Foundation for Basic Research #14-07-31352_ofi_m “High efficient numerical methods for simulation and optimization of diffractive optical elements with subwavelength features and complex composite optical structures” 2016-2017.
  6. Research grant by Russian Foundation for Basic Research #14-07-31352_mol_a “Linear rigorous numerical methods for the light scattering and diffraction simulation” 2013-2015.
  7. Contract with Russian Ministry of Education and Sceince 14.740.11.0544 01/10/2010. “Development of rigorous numerical methods for optical high-resolution nanolithography mask simulation”.

Teaching&supervising:

  • General physics seminars at MIPT (2012 — 2014)
  • General physics lectures (2019 — present)
  • Selected computational methods in photonics (2017 — 2019)
  • Analytical and numerical methods in optics and photonics (2019 — present)
  • Supervisor of bachelor, master and PhD students.

Honors and awards

  • Russian Academy of Sciences Medal for Young Scientists 2013
  • Russian President scholarship for young scientists and PhD students 2012-2014
  • 3d rank diploma of the Regional stage of the Russian Physics Olympiad