His research interests are currently focused on holography, femtosecond optics, and terahertz imaging. He has co-authored around 100 publications in the Scopus database. He is a member of OSA, SPIE, and the Optical Society named after D.S. Rozhdestvensky. Dr. Petrov was the recipient of the Russian Federation Government Prize in Education in 2010 and is a winner of several prizes: St. Petersburg Youth Award in Education in 2012, Yu. I. Ostrovsky Prizes for the best scientific work in the field of optical holography and interferometry in 2012, and 2015, St. Petersburg Government Prize in the field of scientific and pedagogical activity in 2015 and Yu.N. Denisyuk medal in 2017. OSA Senior Member from 2019.