Many prominent scientists made a major contribution to the creation of the school and promoted its further development. Prof. M L. Levinstein, D. Sc. (Eng.) is considered to be the founder of the school. He came to Novosibirsk from Leningrad in 1970. At first, he headed the laboratory of overvoltage in the Siberian Research Institute of Power Engineering and later he was appointed head of the department of super-high voltage in the same institute. In 1971, K. P. Kadomskaya headed the department of high-voltage engineering in NETI (now NSTU). Yu.. V. Tselebrovsky set up a laboratory of grounds in the Siberian Research Institute of Power Engineering. In 1989, he came to work in NSTU where he headed the department of high-voltage engineering and electrophysics. In 1995, he set up an educational and research laboratory of electrotechnical materials science.
Since the beginning of their work the research teams of these departments have contributed greatly to solving urgent problems of power engineering by developing methods of electromagnetic disturbance control in electric systems and elaborating procedures to increase reliability and durability of power installations. Graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral students of NSTU have also been actively involved in research activities. It is they who form the core of the school staff.
At present 27 staff members, 3 postdoctoral and 6 doctoral students are engaged in research within the school.