I am currently a tenure-track research fellow at IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (PCS) in Daejeon, Republic of Korea and also an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea (associated with my main position at PCS).

Career

• 2020.04 - present Research fellow (tenure-track), IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (PCS), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

• 2017.03 - present Associate professor, University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

• 2015 - 2020 Research fellow, IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (PCS), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

• 2012 - 2014 Postdoctoral guest scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

• 2009 - 2012 Research fellow, Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Section, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy

• 2007 - 2009 Research assistant, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Education

• 2004 - 2007 PhD in Theoretical Physics, IPhT, CEA/Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette/Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

• 2003 - 2004 MSc in Theoretical Physics (DEA de Physique Theorique), Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

• 2002 - 2003 Programme International, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

• 1998 - 2002 BSc in Physics, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia (Graduation with honors)

Awards

• 2023.12.10 2023 UST excellent advisor

• 2021.11.18 IBS Researcher of the year

Research interests

I am interested in complex systems which combine degeneracies, frustration and interactions. Examples of such systems include flatbands, glasses and frustrated magnetic systems. Presence of the above three factors makes such systems hosts to various interesting and exotic phases with unusual properties. I am interested in developing analytical and numerical tools to design and investigate models with degeneracies and frustration and understand their properties. 

• • Macroscopic degeneracies in physical systems: engineering, properties and stability.

  • Flat bands: engineering and properties, effects of perturbations -- disorder, interactions.

  • Non-ergodicity and many-body localization (MBL), classical and quantum (spin-)glasses, interplay of glassiness and quantum fluctuations.

  • Machine learning inspired approaches to quantum systems

  • Frustrated magnetism: geometrical frustration, exotic phases, effects of disorder, spin freezing and spin-glass phases.

  • Sphere packing in high dimensions: optimisation landscape, statistical properties, glassiness.