Professor Alexander A. Kamnev (born in 1958 in Saratov, Russia), DSc in physical chemistry, is a Leading Scientist at the Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saratov, Russia). Professor Kamnev has published over 120 papers in peer-refereed international journals, has been regularly involved as an organizer of, and as an invited/plenary lecturer at a number of international conferences and in refereeing manuscripts for many scientific journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, RSC, ACS, etc. He has served as a member of Editorial Boards for several specialized scientific journals including Spectrochim. Acta Part A: Mol. Biomol. Spectrosc. (“Elsevierâ€).