Alexandr A. Berlin, DSc, is Director of the N. N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and many national and international associations. Dr. Berlin is world-renowned scientist in the field of chemical kinetics (combustion and flame), chemical physics (thermodynamics), chemistry and physics of oligomers, polymers, and composites and nanocomposites. He is the contributor to 100 books and volumes and the author of 1000 original papers and review.
Viktor F. Kablov, DSc, was appointed Director of Volzhsky Polytechnical Institute (branch) of VSTU-VPI (branch) of VSTU in 2000, and in 2002, he was elected Head of the Department of Polymer Chemical Technology and Industrial Ecology at the Institute. Professor Koblov has organized new training courses in modeling, computer-assisted methods and information systems in polymer engineering, engineering creativity methods, polymer chemistry and physics, and biotechnology. In 2010, he opened a Master's degree program in elastomer processing technology. He has also authored over 150 inventions, more than 300 research publications, six textbooks, and three monographs.
Andrew Pimerzin, DSc, was appointed vice rector of the Samara State Technical University, Samara, Russia, in 2007. He was also elected as Head of the Department of Chemical Technology Oil Gas Refining at the same university in 2001. In 2009, Professor Pimerzin was invited as a researcher at the Thermodynamics Research Center NIST in the USA, and in 2011, he was one of the organizers of the international conference RCCT-2011. He is the author of more than 250 science publications, including 11 textbooks and nine patents.
Simon S. Zlotsky, PhD, was a Professor in the Department of General Chemistry in the Ufa State Petroleum Technological University in Ufa, Bashkiriya, Russia, and he has headed the department since 2010. He has worked as a research fellow at the Ufa State Petroleum Technological University (1973-77) and researched his doctoral thesis on chemistry of cyclic acetals.