Roman V. Romashko was born in Vladivostok, Russia in 1972. He was graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (Moscow, Russia) in 1995. He received his Ph.D. from the Far-Eastern National Technical University (Vladivostok, Russia) in 2002, and D.Sc. from the Institute of Automation and Control Processes of the Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2011. In the period of 2004-2009, he was visiting researcher in the universities of Finland and Korea. Since 2011, he is a professor of the Department of Photonics and Digital Laser Technologies, Polytechnic Institute, Far-Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia. In 2016, Prof. Romashko was elected a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Speciality: Nanotechnology). Since 2019, he is Director of the Institute of Automation and Control Processes of the Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Vladivostok, Russia). Prof. Romashko is the author of 150 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and 13 patents. His research interests include adaptive interferometry, holography, photorefractive wave-mixing, fiber-optic sensors, optical measurement systems, nanometrology, NDT, SHM, nonlinear optics, photonics, acoustic measurements, biomedical measurements.