Maxim Mazanov was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 1998. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees (cum laude) in theoretical physics from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, in 2019 and 2021, respectively. Since 2021, he has been working toward the Ph.D. degree in optics with ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia. His research interests include photonics, optical spin-orbit interactions, structured light, photonic topological insulators, spintronics, and magnonics.