Lioubov Kiwi-Minsker is a professor emeritus at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. She recieved her PhD in 1982 in physical and colloidal chemistry from Moscow University and passed habilitation in 1992 at the Novosibirsk University in Physical Chemistry. She taught chemical thermodynamics, kinetics of heterogeneous reactions, and colloidal chemistry and carried out research in the field of heterogeneous catalysis for environmental protection. In 1994, she entered the EPFL, being appointed at the Laboratory of Chemical Reaction Engineering. Her research activities continue to be in the field of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Reactor Technology, especially reactors with structured catalytic beds and micro-reactors. She has received Late Innovation awards from “EniTechnology” (Eni Snamprogetti group, Italy) in 2002, from the Royal DSM Company in 2005 and “Doctor Honoris Causa” by the Lomonosov Moscow State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology (Russia) in 2010. She is currently a member of the EU Research Institute of Catalysis (ERIC) and a member of the Working Party on “Chemical Reaction Engineering” of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) and of the European Federation of Catalysis (EFCATS). She is a co-author of around 500 publications, including monographs, textbooks, patents, research articles, and reviews.