Alexander Solntsev has graduated with a double degree in Physics and Education from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2009 and received a PhD from the Australian National University in 2013. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher (2013-2015) and a Research Fellow (2016-2017) at the Australian National University until joining the University of Technology Sydney in 2017 to start a new research group. Alexander is working on quantum and nonlinear optics in micro/nanophotonic structures. He is a recipient of the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2018).