Nikolai Zhitenev, Project Leader

Nikolai Zhitenev is a Project Leader in the Nanofabrication Research group in the CNST. He received a M.Sc. degree in Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, and a Ph.D. degree in Condensed Matter Physics from the Institute of Solid State Physics, Russia. After receiving his Ph.D., we was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Physics, Stuttgart, Germany, and then a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then became a staff member at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, where his research focused on electronic transport in different physical systems, ranging from two-dimensional electron gass in Si, Ge and GaAs, to semiconductor and metal quantum dots, to nanoscale molecular and polymer devices. Nikolai has over 45 publications in high-profile journals including Science, Nature and Physical Review Letters. As a staff member in the CNST, Nikolai leads multiple projects related to the measurement of electronic properties of novel materials patterned into nanoscale devices, and to the development of local electrical measurements using quantum and classical on-probe circuitry.