Polina R. Sharapova received her Diploma in Physics in 2012 and Ph.D. degree in 2015 from M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 2019 she received the habilitation equivalent from Paderborn University. She is currently the Junior-Professor at Paderborn University and the head of Theoretical Quantum Optics group. Her research interests include generation and manipulation of quantum states of light, multidimensional entanglement and macrocorrelations, integrated quantum technologies, matter-quantum light interaction, semiconductor quantum optics.