Vera Zerova is an R&D Scientist at VI Systems GmbH, specializing in laser diode physics and the modelling and design of optoelectronic devices. She holds a Ph.D. in Physics of Semiconductors from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (Russia) and has over 15 years of academic and industrial research experience with III-V quantum well lasers, LEDs, porous silicon modulators, and chip-scale VCSELs. Her career includes research stays at the Ioffe Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (2001, Russia), Lund University (2004, Sweden), and postdoctoral work in the UK on III-nitride LEDs (2013, University of Dundee) and ultrafast carrier dynamics in silicon photonics (2014-2016, University of Birmingham). She has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and received seven personal grants and fellowships in the field of optoelectronics.
Within the SpinDataCom project, Vera Zerova coordinates the VI Systems team and is responsible for the modelling and optimization of packaging solutions for spin-VCSELs, with a focus on enabling high-speed free-space data transmission.