Ivan A. Starkov received the M.S. degree in theoretical physics from the St. Petersburg State University, Russia, in 2007, and the Ph.D. (Dr.techn.) degree in electrical engineering from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 2013. In years 2013–15 he was an assistant professor at Dept. of Radio Electronics of Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. Since 2016 he is research associate at the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University), Russia. His research interests include a wide variety of topics in the field of wave physics and engineering.