I am a physicist working on the interface of quantum matter theory and experiment. I published my first single-author paper being 24 (see also a recent paper here). I was selected for the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (2016). I am a recipient of the Branco Weiss Fellowship (2020).
Service and peer review: I am serving as a reviewer for Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Nature's Scientific Reports, NPG Quantum Materials, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review Research and other academic journals. Grant proposals: I am serving as a referee of grant proposals submitted to National Science Centre (Poland). Other: Peer-review for pre-selection of young scientists' abstracts for Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
Contact: for review requests, collaboration, or outreach, drop me a line here: akruchkov@g.harvard.edu
**Check my website www.alexkruchkov.com for more recent updates**
Education and Training
2017 – now Postdoctoral training at Harvard University
2017 Docteur ès Sciences (Ph.D.), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
2011 B.Sc. with Honors, Landau School for Theoretical Physics, University of Kharkiv, Ukraine
Academic honors
2020 The Branco Weiss Society in Science (ETH Zurich)
2017 SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship for Harvard University
2016 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
2016 Bayer Science & Education Foundation Fellowship (Lindau Meeting)
2015 EPFL Teaching excellence reward
2013 Master of Science degree with High Honors, University of Kharkiv
2011 First Prize Award at International Physicists’ Tournament, Moscow
2011 Bachelor of Science degree with High Honors, University of Kharkiv
2010/2011 Sapronov’s Fellowship for outstanding students/ Sapronov Foundation
2009/2010 Tarapov’s Fellowship for outstanding students / National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Media & Outreach
My research was highlighted in different media outlets, including universities main pages and newspapers:
A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets (Focus on this and this paper)
Designing Black Holes in the Lab
What’s the Magic Behind Graphene’s ‘Magic’ Angle?
Researchers solve magic angle mystery
Controlling skyrmions with lasers
Light can be almost stopped at room temperature
Alex Kruchkov qualifies for 2016 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
A new state of light
New state of light revealed with photon-trapping method
Trapping photons: a model for containing light
Pièges à photons: création d'un modèle pour retenir la lumière
New state of light revealed with photon-trapping method