Laboratory of spectroscopy of defect structures (LSDS) was one of the first in the ISSP RAS. Founder and first leader of the laboratory academician Yurii Andreevich Ossipyan was simultaneously the director of the ISSP RAS.

Corresponding member of RAS Vitaly Vladimirovich Kveder was leader of the Laboratory from 1988 till 2011. From 2002 till now he is a Director of Institute of Solid State Physics Russian Academy of Science

Current leader of the LSDS is Bredikhin Sergey Ivanovich