I am a researcher at Ioffe Institute, St.-Petersburg, Russia. I did my undergraduate studies at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and received my PhD in Physics from Exeter University, UK, and later from Ioffe Institute. Apart from Ioffe Institute, I worked as a postdoc researcher at York University, UK. My research interests mainly concern semiconductor nanostructures and optics of complex nanoscale photonic systems.