Alexander Pechen
| Alexander Pechen | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 26, 1979 Moscow, USSR |
| Residence | Moscow, Russia |
| Citizenship | Russia |
| Education | Moscow State Univ. |
| Awards | Blavatnik Award (2009) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical physics |
| Institutions |
Steklov Inst. (Moscow) MISiS Univ. (Moscow) Princeton University Weitzmann Inst. |
| Doctoral advisor | Igor Volovich |
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Alexander Nikolayevich Pechen (Russian: Александр Николаевич Печень, born 26 January 1979 in Moscow) is a Russian physicist and mathematician. In 2009 he became a laureate of the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists[1] (USA), in 2016 was elected to Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences[2] among about 500 top Russian researchers aged under fifty.
Professional career
Pechen studied physics at the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University, specializing in theoretical physics and graduating with honors in 2001. He received his PhD (Cand. Sci.) in 2004 and Doktor nauk degree in 2014. Pechen is known for the research in quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, open quantum systems and mathematical physics.
His main affiliations were and are with the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (as of 2018 he headed the laboratory of Mathematical Methods of Quantum Technologies there)[3] and National University of Science and Technology MISiS, both located in Moscow. In 2013–2016, he served as Academic Secretary of the Steklov Institute. Since 2014 Pechen is also a member of the coordination council of the Federal Fundamental Scientific Research Programme for 2013–2020 in Russia.[4]
In 2005–2010 Pechen was with Princeton University. It is the work at Princeton that brought him the Blavatnik award; the work has discovered that it is possible to develop a single, unified mathematical treatment for a wide range of open system control phenomena. The control of open quantum systems is highly important for applications since real controlled atoms and molecules almost always significantly interact with their environment. Pechen stayed also as a visiting researcher at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Furthermore, in 2011–2013, as a Marie Curie Fellowship recipient (ACOLA project), he has been working at the Weitzmann Institute in Israel.[1]
Representative publications
- K. A. Lyakhov, H. J. Lee, A. N. Pechen, Some issues of industrial scale boron isotopes separation by the laser assisted retarded condensation (SILARC) method, Sep. Purif. Technol., 176:4 (2017), 402–411.
- A. N. Pechen, D. J. Tannor, Are there traps in quantum control landscapes?, Phys. Rev. Lett., 106 (2011), 120402.
- A. Pechen, H. Rabitz, Teaching the environment to control quantum systems, Phys. Rev. A, 73 (2006), 062102.
- A. Pechen, N. Il'in, F. Shuang, H. Rabitz, Quantum control by von Neumann measurements, Phys. Rev. A, 74 (2006), 052102.
References
- 1 2 Alexander Pechen, the Blavatnik award winner-2009 (Blavatnik program website)
- ↑ "Постановления Президиума РАН о присвоении звания "Профессор РАН" (№ 13) [Decisions of the Presidium of the Academy on awarding the title "Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences"]" (in Russian).
- ↑ Laboratory at the Steklov Institute headed by A. Pechen (website)
- ↑ "Распоряжение Правительства Российской Федерации от 03.11.2014 г. № 2185-р" [Order of the Government of the Russian Federation (Nov. 3, 2014, № 2185-р)] (in Russian). government.ru. 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
