Andrey Shaykin

Andrey Shaykin was born in 1965. He graduated from Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia in 1988, and received the Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics from the Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Nizhny Novgorod, in 2001. He is currently with the Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Nizhny Novgorod. He is one of the creators of the petawatt laser system. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics, optics, powerful solid-state lasers, laser–plasma interactions.