Curriculum vitae

Head of the Laboratory of Physics of Micro- and Nanostructures,

 Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA), 

Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom), 127055 Sushevskaya 22, Moscow, Russia;

e-mail: Walter.Pogosov@gmail.com

Born:  Feb. 16, 1976, in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia (USSR)

Marital status:   Married, three daughthers

Degrees / Education

2014. Habilitation (Doctor of Sciences degree - theoretical physics); defense at the Division of Theoretical Physics of P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences.

2002. Ph.D. in theoretical physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; supervisors: Dr. A.L. Rakhmanov and Dr. K.I. Kugel

1999. M.S. in Physics "cum laude", Faculty of General and Applied Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

1993. Graduated from Murmansk gymnasia no. 3 (school no. 8)

(Additional education: Correspondence Phys.-Tech. School at Moscow Inst. of Physics & Technol. (ЗФТШ) [1991-1993] and All-Soviet Correspondence Mathematical School at Moscow State Univ. (ВЗМШ) [1990-1993])

Employment

2014 - : Leading Researcher, Head of the Laboratory // Center for Fundamental and Applied Research, Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA), Moscow, Russia.

2006 - : Researcher, Senior researcher, Leading researcher (part time position since 2014) // Theoretical laboratory, Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electrodynamics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

2015 - : Leading researcher (part time position) // Center for advanced mesoscience and nanotechnology, Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow region, Russia.

2004-2006: Postdoctoral researcher (JSPS) // Mathematical Physics Laboratory, Okayama University, Japan.

2003-2004: Postdoctoral researcher // Laboratory for Solid State Physics and Magnetism, Catholic Univ. of Leuven, Belgium.

Visiting positions (regular visits):

2006-2012: Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, Sorbonne Université & CNRS; Paris, France.

2008-2012: University of Antwerpen; Antwerpen, Belgium.

Research interests

- Quantum computation and simulation 

- Light-matter interaction in superconducting qubit and cavity-QED platforms

- Exactly solvable and integrable models 

- Superconductivity: microscopic theory, mesoscopic systems, vortices 

- Excitonic systems

- Cold gases

Individual grants and fellowships (selected)

Russia:

Dynasty Foundation (2010, 2011, 2012)

President of Russia programme (2007-2008)

Russian Science Support Foundation (2007-2008)

European Union:

French Ministry of Education grant (2006)

Postdoctoral fellowship of K.U.L. Research Council, Belgium (2003)

INTAS fellowship (2002)

Japan:

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellowship and grant-in-aid, 2004-2006

Scientific referee

Physical Review: A, B, Research, Letters, Applied; Nuclear Physics B; Quantum Information Processing