Andrei Telegin received his masters degree from the Urals State University in 2003, and is now pursuing a PhD degree at the Institute of Metal Physics UB of RAS. He worked as a scientific researcher at the Institute of Metal Physics UB of RAS (2002–2019). In 2019, he was promoted to the head of laboratory in the same organization. His research topics mainly include: magnetism and nanomagnetism, magnetic semiconductors, magneto-optical phenomena, thin films, nanomaterials, metallic nanostructures, spin waves, and Brillouin light scattering.