Nikolay N. Ledentsov received his Diploma of Electrical Engineer from the Electrical Engineering Institute in Leningrad (LETI) in 1982. He received Cand. Sci. (Ph.D.) and Dr. Sci. (habil.) degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the A. F. Ioffe Institute, (Leningrad/Saint Petersburg) in 1987 and 1994, respectively. Since 1994, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering and, since 2005, a certified Professor of Physics and Mathematics. He received fellowships from Alfread Toepfer Foundation for work at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart and from Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation for work at the Institute for Solid State Physics at the Technical University of Berlin (1996-1998). He served as Professor at the TU Berlin in 1998-2007. He has authored and coauthored above 1000 papers in technical journals and conference proceedings and authored and coauthored 39 patent families. His Hirsch factor is 86. Nikolay Ledentsov is Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Senior Member IEEE. His current research focuses on physics and technology of semiconductor nanostructures and on design and technology of advanced optoelectronic devices. Prof. Ledentsov received the Young Scientist Award from the International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (1996) for outstanding contributions to the development of physics and MBE growth of InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots structures and quantum dot lasers, the Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (2002), and other awards and recognitions. Nikolay Ledentsov co-founded NL Nanosemiconductor GmbH (Innolume) in 2003 (Managing Director 2003-2006) and VI Systems GmbH in 2006, where he presently serves as Chief Executive Officer.
Within the SpinDataCom project, Nikolay Ledentsov provides both administrative and scientific leadership as Head of VI Systems GmbH, defining the strategic directions for the development of spin-VCSEL technologies.