Sergey I Shkuratov is currently a Chief Scientist with Loki Incorporated, Norwood, Missouri, USA. He received an MSc in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the Tomsk Institute of Automatic Control Systems and Radioelectronics in 1979, and a PhD in Applied Physics from the Institute of High Current Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia, in 1987. From 1987 to 1998 he was with the Institute of Electrophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia. From 1998 to 2003 he was an Associate Research Professor with Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA. Since 2004, he has been a Chief Scientist with Loki Inc. He has published in the fields of explosive pulsed power science and technology, the physics of ferroelectrics, the physics of ferromagnetism, and shock wave physics. Dr Shkuratov was a recipient of the Paul A Chatterton Young Investigator Award in 1994, the US Small Business Administration's Tibbetts Award for achievements in Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) in 2006, and the Army SBIR Achievement Award in 2008. His recent book, Explosive Pulsed Power (co-authored with Larry Altgilbers, Jason Baird, Bruce Freeman, and Christopher Lynch in 2011), is in print.