**Meet the editor**

Igor Shishkovsky is Leading Researcher in Lebedev Physical Institute (LPI) of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Samara branch, Russian Federation (RF). He holds a Doctor of Sciences degree in the chemical physics (including physics of combustion and explosion) from the Institute of Structural Macrokinetics and Material Science of RAS, Chernogolovka, and PhD in

solid state physics from LPI of RAS, Moscow. He was teaching as Professor at Samara State Technical University and Moscow State Technological University and as Invited Professor at Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Saint Etienne, France.
