Evgeny V. Yakovlev was born in Pavlodar region, Kazakhstan, in 1985. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in physics from the National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, in 2009 and 2011, respectively. He has been with the Institute of High Current Electronics, Russian Academy of Science, Tomsk, since 2011. He has been with the Tomsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, since 2018. His scientific interests include physics of the interaction of pulsed electron beams with metallic materials and application of pulsed electron beams for the surface modification of materials.