George Yu. Yushkov was born in 1965 in Tomsk, Siberia, Russia. He obtained
his M.Sc. degree at the Department of Nuclear Physic of the Tomsk Polytechnic
University in 1988. The same year he joined the High Current Electronics
Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1993 he received
the Ph.D. degree from the High Current Electronics Institute for study
and development of ion beams generated by vacuum arc plasmas. Currently
he is Senior Scientist at the High Current Electronics Institute in Tomsk.
His field of research includes vacuum arc plasma and ion sources, vacuum
arcs physics, high current glow, and ion emission from plasmas. Throughout
the years 1995-2000, Dr. Yushkov was a frequent Guest Scientist with the
Plasma Application Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley,
California, where his field of research focused on vacuum arc plasma and
ion beam physics.
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