“…1), is one of the few pioneering teams in the development of SiPM, originally invented in Russia. His group started with the first ideas and tests in this direction in the early 1990s (see, for example, [2]). About 10 years ago, the Max Plank Institute for Physics in Munich joined the efforts of MEPhI in further developing the SiPMs, primarily for the needs of the MAGIC and EUSO astro-particle physics experiments.…”