Professor Alexander P. Potylitsyn graduated from Tomsk Polytechnic Institute in 1970 with specialization “Experimental Nuclear Physics”. He obtained the degree of Candidate of Science in 1979 and degree of Doctor of Science in 1986. In 1991 he became the Head of Department at Research Institute for Nuclear Physics in Tomsk Polytechnic University. During 1994-95 he has been the Visiting Professor at the Institute for Nuclear Studies, Tokyo University, Japan and during 1996-1997 at Tohoku University, Japan. Also he has been a Visiting Scientist at Mainz University, Germany in 2002.
During 1995-2014 he was the Head of Applied Physics Department at Physical and Technical Institute of Tomsk Polytechnic University. Since 2014 up to now he gas position as leading researcher at the same Department.