Sergey Baryshev graduated in 2004 from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (St. Petersburg, Russia) with an MS in Applied Physics/Materials Science, and received his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia) in 2008 conducting work with emphasis on high temperature superconductor materials and devices.
From 2010 to 2013, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Surface Chemistry Group of the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory working on instrumentation development and studying samples from a NASA's sample return mission called GENESIS.
Prior to joining MSU, he worked at an accelerator R&D company called Euclid TechLabs in collaboration with High Energy Physics and Materials Science Divisions, and the Center for Nanoscale Materials where he was a visiting scientist. His work at Euclid TechLabs was focused on diamond-based electron sources for linear accelerators and novel time-resolved microscopy concepts.