Aleksandr Zozulia was born in Scherbinka, Moscow region, Russia. In 2018 he graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University with specialist degree (360 ECTS) in specialization "Optical and optoelectronic devices and systems". From 2016 till 2018 he worked as optical engineer in "Cyclone JSC Research Institute", Moscow, Russia. From 2018 till 2020 he pursued MS degree in Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, where he also did research in Laboratory of Plasmonics and Nanooptics, with project related to fabrication of modulator on SOI based on hybrid edge plasmons in ITO. In 2020 he passed internship in cleanroom of Royal Holloway University of London, UK, where he took part in project related to fabrication of THz detector based on 2D electon gas in GaAs.

Since July 2020 Aleksandr is PhD student in Photonic Integrtion group, under supervision of Yuqing Jiao, and he works on project "High-speed directly modulated lasers on IMOS".