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Dr Alexander Kruchkov
Department of Physics, Princeton University, 397 Jadwin Hall Princeton, NJ 08544
Email: alexkruchkov*at*princeton.edu
Current position
Sep 2023 - now Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University
Sep 2021 - now Principal Investigator, Branco Weiss program at Institute of Physics, EPFL, Switzerland
Associate of the Department, Department of Physics, Harvard University, USA. (on leave to Princeton University)
Sep 2022 - now Lecturer, EPFL
Current teaching
Spring 2022 Lectures on Twisted Bilayer Graphene (EPFL Advanced Course, 28 hours of lectures+exercises)
Fall 2022 Solid State Physics I (lectures); teaching sample
Approved funding
2023 Swiss National Science Foundation, SPARK (PI functions)
2020 The Branco Weiss Grant (PI functions)
2017 Swiss National Science Foundation, grant "Topological Electronics"
Education and Training
2017 – 2020 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
Honors, Awards, Fellowships
2020 The Branco Weiss Society in Science
2017 Fellowship from Swiss National Science Foundation for Harvard University
2016 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Media & Outreach
My research was highlighted in different media outlets, including universities main pages and newspapers:
Designing Black Holes in the Lab (Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting)
“Family” of Strong, Superconducting Graphene Structures Found. (focus on twisted multilayers)
Physicists create tunable superconductivity in twisted graphene “nanosandwich” (Focus on trilayer sandwich and multilayers)
A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets (Focus on this and this paper)
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