Nikolay V Klenov

Born: Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia, June 04, 1982.

Education: Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow,

Undergraduate course (with honors) 1999 – 2005

Postgraduate course 2005 - 2008

Master degree: 2005

Diploma title: “Josephson systems for flux qubits based on junctions with nonsinusoidal current-phase relations” (acad. R. V. Khokhlov award).

Ph.D. Degree (Candidate of Science in Physics and Mathematics)

from Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics 2008

Thesis: “Superconducting devices based on nontrivial phase and amplitude characteristics of Josephson structures”.

Doctor Habilitatus (Doctor of Technical Sciences)

from Moscow Technical University of Communication and Informatics 2018

Habilitation thesis: “Principles of device construction for signal receiving and processing based on macroscopic quantum effects in superconductors”.

Post.Doc. Position: Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Assistant Professor 2008 – 2012

Associate Professor since 2012 up to now.

Area of expertise: superconductivity, ferromagnetism, superconducting electronics, quantum computing systems, RSFQ (Rapid Single flux Quantum) logic, Josephson-junction arrays and multi-junction systems, magnetic Josephson junctions (MJJ), application of quantum and statistical physics to social systems.

Reviewer/guest editor of a number of international journals (New Journal of Physics, Superconductor Science and Technology – IOPscience; Beilstein journal of nanotechnology, JETP Letters, Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics; Symmetry).

Dr. N. V. Klenov was in the lists of principal investigators of several International Scientific Projects: NATO project SfP-973559 , INTAS project 01-0809, ISTC project 2369, CRDF GAP project RUP1-1493-05-MO (years 2005-2013).

The head / PI in more than 20 projects (the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Russian Scientific Foundation, etc.)

Main results of completed projects

 Josephson gates, valves, and bistable contacts – new memory elements for a superconducting computer, as well as key components (synapses) of promising neuromorphic computing systems are proposed, investigated, and optimized.

 The analysis of the dynamics of quasi-soliton excitations in Josephson media allowed us to optimize a ballistic detector capable of reading the states of mesoscopic quantum bits.

 Methods of fast control of the states of superconducting quantum bits using digital Josephson circuits are proposed, investigated, and optimized.

 Basic elements (neurons and synapses)have been developed for superconducting artificial neural networks based on elements of adiabatic Josephson logic.

 Circuit design solutions that are important for technologies involving direct digitization of a signal in a wide frequency range using superconducting analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are proposed and analyzed.

Awards

• Grants of Soros educational program in the field of natural sciences (2005) and Dynasty Foundation (2012).

• Winner of the competition for awarding grants to support talented students, graduate students, and young scientists in Moscow State University (2008, 2010, 2013, 2015).

• Laureate of competition for grants of the Moscow State University for young lecturers and researchers who have achieved significant results in the teaching and research activities (2007, 2012).

• Laureate of the competition of young scientists of the Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University (2012, 2014-2015).

• Moscow Government Prize for young scientists (2015).

• Young Lecture of the Year at the Physics Faculty of the Moscow State University (2016).

• Winner of the 40th Competition of scientific works of young scientists in the Moscow State University (2017).

• Laureate of the "Special Course" competition for the development of new and updated special courses at the Faculty of Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University from the Foundation for the Development of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics "BASIS" (2018, 2020).

• Winner of the competitions for the right to receive grants from the President of the Russian Federation for state support of young Russian scientists – candidates and doctors of sciences (2016, 2020).

• Winner of the competition of the Vladimir Potanin’s Foundation for Master's degree teachers (2021).