Aleksandr Vasilev was born in Republic of Mordovia, Russia in 1990. In 2011 he obtained the Bachelor degree in Electronics and Nanoelectronics from Chuvash State University and the Master degree in Solar Heterostructure Photovoltaics at Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" in Russia in 2013. He joined the Institute for Microelectronics in October 2019, where he is working for the FWF project DEMOS and the CDL for SDS. His research focus will be on defect-centric modeling of reliability issues in SiC devices.