She is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany, where she heads an independent research group on quantum radiation,[1] and a professor at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, in the chair of experimental physics (optics).
She was a full-time researcher at Moscow State University from 1989 to 2010, continuing on a part-time basis until 2020.
In the meantime, she took her present position at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in 2010.
[3][4] In November 2021 Chekhova was elected for the "Optica Fellow 2022" for "pioneering contributions to the science and applications of photon pairs and twin beams".
[5][6] Chekhova is the coauthor, with Peter Banzer, of the textbook Polarization of Light: In Classical, Quantum and Nonlinear Optics (De Gruyter, 2021).