Place of birth: Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Citizenship: Canada, Russia.

Employment:

• Professor of Physics, University of Waterloo, 2018-present.
• Associate Professor of Physics, University of Waterloo, 2012-2018
• Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Waterloo, 2007-2012. 
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Harvard University, 2005-2007.
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, UCSB, 2002-2005.  

Education:

• PhD (Physics), Indiana University, 2002. 
• M.S. (Physics), Michigan State University, 1998. 
• Diploma (Physics), Saint Petersburg State Technical University, 1996.