Research work

• Senior researcher: Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, Department of Optics: 2008, 2009 to present;
  
• Senior researcher: Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine, Synergetics Department: 2007 to 2019;
  
• Researcher: Institute of Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine, Theoretical Physics Department: 2000 to 2007;
  
• Researcher: Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita‘ degli studi di Milano, Italy, Applied Quantum Mechanics Group: 2006, 2008.
  

Education

• PhD: Institute of Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine, Theoretical Physics Department: 2006 (supervised by Prof. Bohdan I. Lev);
  
• MS: Kyiv National University, Physics Faculty, Theoretical Physics Department: 1999;
  
• BS: Kyiv National University, Physics Faculty, Theoretical Physics Department: 1998.
  
• High school: Natural Science Lyceum No. 145, Kyiv, Ukraine: 1993.
  

Research stays

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, California State University, Los Angeles: 2016
  
• Laboratoire Aime Cotton, Universite Paris-Sud: 2013
  
• Faculty of Physics, Danish Technical University, Lyngby: 2011, 2012, 2013
  
• Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen: 2011, 2012, 2013
  
• ENS Paris-Saclay: 2011, 2012
  

Projects, grants and fellowships

1. EU Horizon Europe project QSNP: 2022-2026 (principal investigator for the Czech Republic)
   
2. ESA ARTES and EU Horizon Europe project Eagle-1: 2022-2027 (principal investigator for Palacky University)
   
3. EU QuantERA ERA-NET project CVSTAR: 2022-2025 (principal investigator for the Czech Republic)
   
4. EU QuantERA ERA-NET project QD-E-QKD: 2022-2025 (principal investigator for the Czech Republic)
   
5. Bilateral research grant 21-44815L of the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) and Polish National Science Centre (NCN): 2021-2024 (principal investigator for the Czech Republic)
   
6. H2020 Twinning project No. 951737, NONGAUSS: 2021-2023 (investigator, WP leader)
   
7. Research grant 19-23739S of the Czech Science Foundation (GACR): 2019-2021 (principal investigator)
   
8. EU H2020 Quantum Flagship initiative project No. 820466, CiViQ: 2018-2022 (principal investigator for the Czech Republic, WP leader, Steering Committee member)
   
9. ESA ARTES ScyLight project "QUARTZ": 2018-2022 (principal investigator for the Czech Republic)
   
10. INTER-COST grant LTC17086 of the Czech Ministry of Education (MSMT): 2017-2020 (principal investigator)
    
11. Bilateral research grant 7AMB17DE034 of the Czech Ministry of Education (MSMT) and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): 2017-2018 (principal investigator for the Czech Republic)
    
12. EU COST Action CA15220, QTSpace: 2016-2021 (principal investigator for the Czech Republic, Management Committee member)
    
13. Bilateral research grant 13-27533J of the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) and German Research Foundation (DFG): 2013-2015 (principal investigator)
    
14. EU FP7-ICT project No. 308803, BRISQ2: 2013-2015 (investigator)
    
15. NATO SPS project 984397 "Secure communications using Quantum Information Systems": 2012-2014 (principal investigator for Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics)
    
16. OP VK project "International Center for Information and Uncertainty" of the Czech Ministry of Education (MSMT): 2011-2014 (investigator)
    
17. Post-doctoral research grant P205/10/P321 of the Czech Science Foundation (GACR): 2010-2012 (principal investigator)
    
18. EU FP7-ICT project No. 212008, COMPAS: 2008-2011 (investigator)
    
19. Bilateral research grant 202/07/J040 of the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) and German Research Foundation (DFG): 2007-2010 (principal investigator for the Czech Republic)
    
20. Landau Network-Centro Volta Cariplo Foundation Fellowship: 2006, 2008
    
21. NATO grant CPB.NUKR.EV 982379: 2006 (principal investigator)
    

Other science-related activities

• Programme chair for Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom'23) (July 10 - 13, Busan, Korea);
  
• Programme committee member for Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom'22) (July 24 - 28, Maastricht, the Netherlands);
  
• Programme committee member for 11th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt) (August 23-27 2021, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and 13th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt) (August 14-18 2023, Maryland, USA);
  
• Topic Editor for Entropy journal by MDPI (since 2021);
  
• Guest Editor for "Quantum communication" special issue in Entropy (2021);
  
• Associate Editor for Quantum Measurements and Quantum Metrology journal by De Gruyter Open;
  
• Conference organization (scientific secretary for ICQOQI'2010 in Kyiv, Ukraine; organizing committee member for 'Photons Beyond Qubits' 2012-2019 workshop series in Olomouc, Czech Republic);
  
• Programme committee member for 2nd Quantum Technology - Implementations for Space Workshop (14-15 November 2017, ESA/ESTEC, the Netherlands);
  
• Reviewer for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, New Journal of Physics, Optics Express, Journal of Modern Optics, Journal of Physics B, European Physical Journal D, Entropy, Quantum Information Processing, Scientific Reports etc
  

Scientific interests

• Quantum Information
  
• Quantum Optics
  
• Quantum Communication
  
• Foundations of Quantum Physics
  
• Computer Modelling