Sergey Burikov was born on 9th of November 1978 in Moscow. In 1996, he applied to the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University and after graduating from it became a Ph.D. Student. In the next two years, he became a Junior Researcher at the Department of Quantum Electronics. In 2012, he has been promoted to Senior Researcher.

Due to the "Agreement for scientific and educational cooperation between M. V. Lomnosov Moscow State University and Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg", in April 2003 Sergey participated in joint experiments with the Marine Physics Research Group headed by Dr. R. Reuter at the University of Oldenburg. In May 2003, Sergey took part in the experiments on boards of R. V. "Senkenberg" and "Heinke" in the North Sea; in 2004 he took part in the expedition in the South Atlantic and Antarctica on board of R. V. "Akademik Sergey Vavilov".