Dr. Karpov received his MSc with honors in Applied Physics and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 2014, and his PhD in Physics in 2020 from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), where he spearheaded the development of the novel photonics technology of microcombs. Dr. Karpov’s PhD Thesis has been widely recognized and received multiple awards including the MDPI Physics: Best PhD Thesis award 2021, the prestigious Hans-Eggenberger Thesis Prize 2020 and EPD-QEOD 2021 Thesis Prize for applied aspects from European Physical Society. In 2021, Dr. Karpov was also recognized as one of the Rising Stars of Light 2021. Dr. Karpov has been also selected as one of the participants in the first Deeptech Cohort of On-Deck Community and has gone through the World’s famous startup accelerator – Y combinator in 2022. He has published >30 articles and has an h-index of 23 with >6200 citations.