**Meet the editor**

Vadim Glebovsky is a professor at the Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka, Moscow district, Russia. He graduated at the Baikov Institute for Metallurgy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Then he worked successively at the Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka. For the long periods of

time he stayed abroad for the scientific studies at the Max-Planck-Institutes fuer Metallforschung in Stuttgart and at the Technical University in Eindhoven. His researches span various areas of the physical metallurgy of high-purity refractory metals and alloys. In particular, he is interested in both theory and practice of growing single crystals and bicrystals of transition metals, studying the crystallographically related surface properties of high-purity refractory metals of 4, 5 and 6 groups of the Periodic Table. He is an expert in the electron-beam floating zone melting technique as well in the various high-temperature processing of single-crystalline and polycrystalline high-purity refractory metals and alloys. Professor Vadim Glebovsky is an author of over 300 research papers, 75 patents and several monographs on levitation melting, single crystals growing and other subjects of materials science.
