**Meet the editor**

Dr Alexander I. Kokorin: born: 1947, Moscow; DSc., PhD; Principal Research Fellow (Research Professor) of Department of Kinetics and Catalysis, N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Area of research interests: the interspin interaction between paramagnetic centres, application of spin label/ probe technique to ionic liquids, their dynamic properties,

physical chemistry of complex-organized molecular and nanosized systems, EPR of doped oxide semiconductors. He is an expert in structural, catalytic and photocatalytic properties of metal oxides. The author or co-author of 3 books, more than 200 articles and reviews in scientific journals and books. In 2011 he was awarded with N.M. Emanuel Medal for the outstanding results in chemical and biochemical physics.
