Dr. Andrii Iurov has served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Computer Science at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York (CUNY) since 2019 and a CUNY doctoral faculty. In 2014, he received his Ph.D. in theoretical and computational condensed matter physics from the CUNY Graduate Center. He has published over 50 peer reviewed papers, including nearly 20 publications in Physical Review journals, as well as 3 book chapters. Dr. Iurov’s main research interests lie in graphene and low-dimensional materials, quantum optics, light-matter interactions, and theoretical and mathematical physics, specifically, deriving new analytical equations and closed-form expressions for many-body physics.