A. G. Kuzmenkov

Alexander G. Kuzmenkov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1972. He graduated from the Leningrad Physical-Mechanical College, Leningrad, Russia, in 1991 and from the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1997. In 1997, he joined the Olvia Ltd., St. Petersburg, Russia. He was involved in the design and metrology of the low power solid-state Imicrowave systems. Since 2001, he has worked at A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), St. Petersburg, Russia, in the laboratory of Prof. Zh.I. Alferov. In 2006, he joined the St. Petersburg Physics and Technology Center for Research and Education, RAS. His field of professional interests are vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and microwave transistors. He has co-authored over 15 papers.