Dr. Yuriy Petenev joined BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus in August 2023 as a "Visiting Assistant Professor". Before joining BITS, Yuriy worked as Particle Accelerator Physicist in Germany at accelerators BESSY II and MLS for 13 years. 

Yuriy was born in Novosibirsk, Russia in 1987. He got his B.Sc. (Physics, Plasma Physics, Title of work: “Capillary formation in metals under an electron beam”) and M.Sc. (Physics, Accelerator Physics, Title of work: “Compensation of the highest harmonics of quadrupole lens with change of the pole profile”) degrees from Novosibirsk State University in 2008 and 2010. In 2010 he moved to Berlin, Germany to do his PhD. He was a Student at Humboldt University Berlin and worked at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin. In 2014 he received a Ph.D. degree for his thesis on “Analysis of injection and recovery schemes for ERL based light source”.

Since then he worked as Post-Doc at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin and PTB - the National Metrology Institute of Germany at the Metrology Light Source and BESSY II. For several topics: development of new machine parameters with a goal to improve the radiation stability at IR/THz beamlines at the MLS, e.g. looking for a correlation between measured longitudinal bunch profile and observed spectra at the end of THz and IR beamlines. Worked in collaboration with Chinese group lead by A. Chao for test experiments about Steady State Microbunching, which require special low alpha optic with a good control of dispersion function. PoP 1 phase was successfully demonstrated and published in Nature. Participated in the set up and commissioning of the powerful laser also in the overlapping of the laser pulse with electron beam pulse. Worked on the development of a new ring optic which can be
applied to the generation of the Coherent Synchrotron Radiation by microbunched beam at the IR beamline. Calculated the spectra from 6d beam using the program Wave by M. Scheer. Developed “autoscraper” software which allow the control of a beam current from 200 mA to a single electron (1 pA) by means of Si-photodiodes. This software has a possibility to gradually scrape electrons out of the ring from about 2000 e to the last one and after that count the
number of electrons which were scraped. This is required for metrology experiments performed by PTB colleagues. Participated in the recommissioning of 3rd harmonic cavities at BESSY II. Also organized a laboratory work for students at the MLS. He also worked for design of Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) based future light source. The Conceptual Design report for a 6 GeV ERL based light source called Femto Science Factory (FSF) was written. Also worked for start to end optic simulation using Elegant program.

Yuriy also likes to play chess and bughouse chess.