Sergey Sokovnin is Head of the Electrophysical Technologies Group at the Institute of Electrophysics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEP UB RAS) and Professor at the Institute of Physics and Technology of the Ural Federal University, Russia. He graduated from the Tomsk Polytechnic Institute in 1983 (now Tomsk Polytechnic University) and then obtained a degree of candidate in 1994 and doctor of technical sciences (in electrophysics) in 2005. His main areas of scientific interests are materials science and radiation technologies.