Principle Investigator / Group Leader

Zhanybek Alpichshev

2018 – present: Assistant Professor, IST Austria
2017 – 2018: visiting scientist, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Hamburg)
2012 – 2017: postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012 PhD, Stanford University
2004 BS, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Dept. of General and Applied Physics, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics)
CV

Postdocs

Dmytro Rak

2019 PhD (Chemistry), Technical University of Kosice, Košice, Slovakia
2010 MS (Chemistry), Uzhhorod National University, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
2008 BS (Chemistry), Uzhhorod National University, Uzhhorod, Ukraine

PhD Students

Chao Shen

2013 MS (Optical Engineering), Electronics Engineering Institute, Hefei, China
2010 BS (Opto-Electronics Information Science and Engineering), Electronics Engineering Institute, Hefei, China

Abhishek Shiva Kumar

2020 BS-MS Dual degree (Major in Physics with a minor in Chemistry), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM), Kerala, India;

Areg Avtandilyan

2022 BS (Applied Mathematics and Physics), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russian Federation

Scientific Interns

Abhay Saxena

2026 BS-MS Dual Degree (Major in Physical Sciences and Minor in Computational and Data Sciences), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, West Bengal , India

Alumni

PostDocs

Dusan Lorenc | 01.08.2018 – 31.07.2023 (now Head of Photonics Department, International Laser Center, Slovakia)

Vlad Dziom | 01.07.2019 – 30.06.2022

Students, Interns, etc.

Isentai Mukanov (PhD student) | 15.09.2023 – 31.10.2025

Eleanor Thompson (summer ISTern) | 01.07.2024 – 15.09.2024 (now back at Cambridge University)

Nikolai Semenov (scientific intern) | 15.02.2023 – 14.09.2023 (now PhD student at IST Austria)

Alexei Gurchenko (summer ISTern) | 01.07.2022 – 15.09.2022 (now PhD student at IST Austria)

Viola Huf (summer ISTern) | 01.06.2021 – 01.09.2021 (now PhD student at University of Leeds)

Younes Ashourishokri (scientific intern) | 15.10.2019 – 31.08.2021 (now Senior Engineer, Silicon Austria Labs)

Yujing (Lisa) Wei (summer ISTern) | 01.06.2019 – 01.09.2019 (now PhD student at Columbia University)