Prof. Dr. Mikhail A. Proskurnin is a Professor at the Chemistry Department of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. He received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees (1984–1989) from this university and was a Visiting Scientist at Tokyo University (1999–2000), FZK (Germany, 2002), and UAMS (AK, USA, 2012). He is a Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Bureau of the Scientific Council on Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the author and translator of 12 books, 5 patents, and 200+ papers on photothermal spectroscopy and analytical chemistry. The scientific interests of Prof. Proskurnin lie in photonics and photothermal and photoacoustic spectroscopy, analytical and physical chemistry, and applied materials science and biomedical studies.