Professor Golutvin holds an MSc in Theoretical Particle Physics from the Moscow State University, Russia (1980), a DSc in Physics and Mathematics and a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics from the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia (1987-1991). In 2008, he joined the Imperial College London, UK, as a Professor of Physics, where he serves until today. He held also the position of guest professor at CERN (2011-2016).

Professor Golutvin has collaborated and held responsibilities in leading research programs, such as the ARGUS experiment at DESY, Germany (1984-1993); the GEM experiment at the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), USA (1991-1993); the CERN RD-40 project on the quartz fiber calorimetry, Switzerland (1993-1995); the HERA-B experiment at DESY laboratory (1993-1998), as a project leader of the electromagnetic calorimeter. He is a member of the LHCb experiment at CERN, where he served as a spokesperson (2008-2011), a convener of the Rare Decays physics group and a leader of the electromagnetic calorimeter project. He is currently the founder and the spokesperson of the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment at CERN (2013-present).