Yaroslav Filinchuk studied Chemistry at Lviv National University and received a Ph.D in Inorganic Chemistry in 2002. He joined the University of Geneva in 2000, where he began to work on metal hydrides with Prof. Klaus Yvon. In 2006–2010, he worked at the Swiss–Norwegian Beam Lines at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. Since 2011, he has been a professor of structural chemistry at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium). He received the ESRF young scientist award in 2010 and published about 280 papers (h index 73). His research interests include the chemistry of hydrogen-rich solids, in particular for hydrogen storage, porous materials, and various applications of crystallography in materials science. He was co-chair of MH2024 and will co-chair the GRC on Hydrogen-Metal systems in 2025.