Ilya L. Snetkov was born in the town of Bor, the Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia in 1984. He received the B.S. (2005) and M.S. (2007) degrees in physics from the N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod at the Advanced School of General and Applied Physics Faculty and the Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics from the Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia in 2015. His research interests are in the field of high-power solid-state lasers with near diffraction beam quality, thermally induced effects in crystals, glasses and ceramics and methods of their compensation, magneto-optics, and materials characterization. He is currently a senior researcher with the Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences. He produced more than 60 original papers (1222 Citations, 21 H-index) in refereed international and domestic journals.