Artem Bercha was born in Chernovtsy, Ukraine, in 1965. He graduated from Uzhgorod National University, Uzhgorod, Ukraine, in 1987. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute for Physics of Semiconductors, Kiev, Ukraine, in 1994. His major studies were on optical properties of GaAs–AlAs short period superlattices. From 1995 to 2000, he worked as a Scientific Researcher at the Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Solids and as an Assistant Professor in the Electronic Systems Faculty of Uzhgorod National University. Since 2001, he has had a postdoctoral position at the High Pressure Research Center of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, and investigates the properties of semiconductor laser diodes under high hydrostatic pressure.