Andrei Stepanenko
Dr Stepanenko is an Arnold & Landau Junior Fellow. His research focuses on the design of quantum systems that exhibit topological effects.
Dr Andrei Stepanenko is an Arnold and Landau Junior Fellow at the London Institute. He grew up in the city of Nizhny Tagil, and, inspired by his love of the TV show Stargate, studied theoretical physics and applied mathematics at the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg. It was there he became interested in quantum computing, experimenting with the IBM Quantum Experience platform. He moved to St Petersburg to do a masters at ITMO University, followed by a PhD in topological photonics. His thesis was on designing quantum systems with topological protection from chaos that occurs in qubit arrays. Outside research, he is interested in drawing, rock music and 80s-themed RPG board games.
Dr Stepanenko works on quantum computing, photonics, the dynamics of many-body quantum states and interaction-induced topological phases.