• Quantum materials
• Functional Metadevices
• Quantum and optical sensors
• Wireless power transfer based on novel physical concepts
• Anomalies in light scattering

2018 Postdoc in Photonics, University of Texas at Austin
2013 Ph.D., Photonics and Quantum Optics, ITMO University
2010 M.S., Quantum Optics, Far Eastern Federal University

1. Z.-L. Deng, T. Shi, A. Krasnok, X. Li, and A. Alù, Observation of Localized Magnetic Plasmon Skyrmions, Nature Communications 13, 8 (2022)
2. Q. Zhang, G. Hu, W. Ma, P. Li, A. Krasnok, R. Hillenbrand, A. Alù, and C.-W. Qiu, Interface Nano-Optics with van Der Waals Polaritons, Nature 597, 187 (2021)
3. M. Song, P. Jayathurathnage, E. Zanganeh, M. Krasikova, P. Smirnov, P. Belov, P. Kapitanova, C. Simovski, S. Tretyakov, and A. Krasnok, Wireless Power Transfer Based on Novel Physical Concepts, Nature Electronics 4, 707 (2021)
4. S. Lepeshov and A. Krasnok, Tunable Phase-Change Metasurfaces, Nature Nanotechnology 16, 615 (2021)
5. G. Hu, Q. Ou, G. Si, Y. Wu, J. Wu, Z. Dai, A. Krasnok, Y. Mazor, Q. Zhang, Q. Bao, C. W. Qiu, and A. Alù, Observation of Topological Polaritons and Photonic Magic-Angle in Twisted Van der Waals Bi-Layers, Nature, 582 (7811), 209-213 (2020)
6. Alex Krasnok, Photonic Rashba effect, Nature Nanotechnology, 15 (11), 893-894 (2020)
7. Alex Krasnok, Metalenses go atomically thick and tunable, Nature Photonics, 14, 409-410 (2020)
8. M. Wang, A. Krasnok, S. Lepeshov, G. Hu, T. Jiang, J. Fang, B. A. Korgel, A. Alù, and Y. Zheng, Suppressing material loss in the visible and near-infrared range for functional nanophotonics using bandgap engineering, Nature Communications, 11, 5055 (2020)
9. Liuyang Sun, Chun-Yuan Wang, Alex Krasnok, Junho Choi, Jinwei Shi, Juan Sebastian Gomez-Diaz, André Zepeda, Shangjr Gwo, Chih-Kang Shih, Andrea Alù, and Xiaoqin Li. Separation of valley excitons in a MoS2 monolayer using a subwavelength asymmetric groove array. Nature Photonics 13, 180–184 (2019)
10. Denis G. Baranov, Yuzhe Xiao, Igor A. Nechepurenko, Alex Krasnok, Andrea Alù, Mikhail A. Kats. Nanophotonic engineering of far-field thermal emitters. 18, 920–930 Nature Materials (2019)
11. Baranov, D. G., Alex Krasnok, Shegai, T., Alù, A., & Chong, Y., Coherent perfect absorbers: linear control of light with light. Nature Reviews Materials, 2, 17064 (2017)