Biography:
Viktor A. Sverdlov was born in 1963 in Leningrad, Russia. He received
his Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in physics from St.Petersburg
State University (St.Petersburg, Russia) in 1985 and 1989,
respectively. From 1989 to 1999 he worked as a staff research
scientist at the V.A.Fock Institute of Physics, St.Petersburg State
University. During this time, he actively visited leading European
research centers and Universities: ICTP (Italy, 1993), University of
Geneva (Switzerland, 1993-1994), University of Oulu (Finland,1995),
Helsinki University of Technology (Finland, 1996, 1998), FU Berlin
(Germany, 1997), NORDITA (Denmark, 1998). In 1999
he became a Staff Research Scientist at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook. In April 2004 he joined the Institute for
Microelectronics, Technische Universität Wien. His
scientific interests include device simulation, computational physics,
solid-state physics, and nanoelectronics.