Vladimir Shevchenko was born on November 6, 1960, in the Krasnodar Region, Russia. He graduated from the Geological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1989. Since 1989, he has worked at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences (SIO). Since 2018, he has been the Deputy Director of SIO. In 2000, he defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Aerosols - the effect on sedimentation and environmental conditions in the Arctic" (supervisor: Academician A.P. Lisitzin). He is interested in the role of dispersed sedimentary matter in the atmosphere, ice, seas, and oceans in sedimentation processes and the geochemistry of lichens, peat bogs, and sediments. He participated in more than 50 expeditions and was the chief scientist on many of them. The main research area is the Arctic. He is the author and co-author of more than 300 scientific papers, including two personal monographs. Under his leadership, three Ph.D. theses were defended. He is a member of the Gesellschaft fuer Aerosolforschung, American Geophysical Union, Russian Geographical Society, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Polarforschung, European Geosciences Union, European Association of Geochemistry, and Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health. He speaks English, French, and German. He is an expert on black carbon at AMAP (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme) and a member of the editorial boards of "Oceanology", " Journal of Oceanological Research", and "Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics".