Viktor Stepanov is currently an adjunct at the International Center for Interaction of Magnetism and Superconductivity with Topological Matter – MagTop, ON6.2, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the Radiophysics Department of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv State University in 1990. He defended his PhD in 2022 at B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering (ILTPE) of NAS of Ukraine. V. Stepanov took an active part in the development and creation of original technological and experimental setups for obtaining and researching copper-oxide high-temperature superconducting films. High-quality YBa2Cu3Ox films were obtained by pulse laser deposition. The critical parameters, current-voltage characteristics, impedance in the range of ~ 107 Hz, fluctuating conductivity, critical current density of such films were studied. V. Stepanov has been developed and assembled a working insert for precision measurement of electrical resistance and thermal electromotive force at low temperatures, with the help of which a number of results were obtained, published in cited scientific journals.
Currently, he is affiliated both to MagTop IF PAN (Poland) and ILTPE (Ukraine) and works on the project “Chalcogenide nanostructures as a versatile platform for quantum bits (ChalQ)” as part of the Long-term program to support Ukrainian research teams. His current research interests focus on studying growth and magnetotransport in monochalcogenide materials and their interaction with superconductivity or magnetism. He has co-authored 12 peer-reviewed scientific papers. According to WoS, he has been cited > 25 times, resulting in an h-index of 4.