Professor Oleksandr Kyriienko
Associate Professor
Physics and Astronomy
Dr. Oleksandr Kyriienko is leading the Quantum Dynamics, Optics, and Simulation group (QuDOS). His background is in theoretical quantum optics and computing. Please visit our group page for the detailed description. A profile page for Dr Kyriienko can be visited here. Research subjects include:
- Quantum Optics of 2D materials and Polaritonics
- Quantum Computing and Simulation
- Non-equilibrium Dynamics
- Machine Learning
- and many others.
QuDOS group is growing and various opportunities appear regularly. Please contact o.kyriienko@exeter.ac.uk if you want to join.
Group Members
♦ Salvatore Chiavazzo PhD student
Salvatore finished his Bachelor degree in Physics at University of Naples (Italy), 2017. He acomplished his Master degree in Physics (Condensed Matter training track) at University of Trieste (Italy), 2019.
During 2019 – Visitor at Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo (Canada) to carry out master thesis project. The research stay was funded with the Extra-Erasmus scholarship.
From 2020 – PhD student at the University of Exeter in the QuDOS group.
Salvatore Chiavazzo research is focused on two-dimensional materials, strong light-matter coupling, and optomechanics. To date, he has successfully described and characterized of two-phonon cooling in electromechanical systems that operate in microwave domain.
His current research activity includes theoretical description of dipolaritons in TMD bilayers and its application to single photon emission.
♦ Annie Paine PhD student
Annie recived her Bachelor in Mathematics at University of Oxford (UK) 2018. And finished Master degree in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics at University of Oxford (UK) 2019.
Between years at university she has completed two internships, both of which were programming related. There she improved her programming skills (particularly in C++, Python and Rust) as well as experiencing working in a team in a professional setting. At her second internship with Metaswitch Annie gained experience in presenting her works progress and results as she was placed in a team which had daily meetings in which everyone reported their progress.
From 2020 Annie is a PhD student in Quantum Computing group under the supervision of Dr. Kyriienko at the University of Exeter.
Her project is focused on finding useful quantum algorithms for near term quantum devices. To deal with the limitations of near term quantum devices she is particularly interested in hybrid and variational approaches. The areas of application that she is focused on include differential equations, which permeate many different areas of study, and finding the ground state energy of a system, a question of great interest in computational Chemistry.
♦ Tatiana Bespalova MSc student as a part of research collaboration
Tatiana has accomplished her Bachelor degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics at Saint Petersburg Academic University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), 2019
From 2019 Tatiana is a MSc student at ITMO University (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
