Dr. Petr M. Korusenko is a senior researcher at the Department of Solid-State Electronics, V.A. Fock Institute of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, and an associate professor at the Department of Physics, Omsk State Technical University, Russia. He conducts research in solid-state physics, materials science, and experimental physics, as well as investigation of materials by X-ray absorption and photoelectron spectroscopy at soft ranges using synchrotron radiation.