Dr. Vladimir K. Ivanov is Director of the Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has nearly 25 years of expertise in materials chemistry, microwave chemistry and sonochemistry. Dr. Ivanov holds a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry. He has authored more than 250 papers and 14 patents. Dr. Ivanov is also a Professor at Moscow State University and Moscow Technological University. He is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland.