Vladimir Ya. Aleshkin received a Ph.D. degree and a D.Sc. (Habilitation) from Lobachevsky State University of Gorky in 1986 and from the Institute for Physics of Microstructures, RAS, in 2002, respectively. From 1979 to 1991, he worked at the Gorky physico-technical institute. From 1991 to 1993, he worked as a senior researcher at the Applied Physics Institute of the RAS. In 1993, he joined the Institute for Physics of Microstructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he worked as a senior researcher and main researcher. He worked part-time at Lobachevsky University from 1989 until 2006, first as an associate professor and then as a professor. His research activity is associated with the physics and computer modelling of low-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures and electronic, optoelectronic, and terahertz devices based on nanostructures, including graphene-based devices. He has about 250 journal publications and four patents.