Maxim Oshchepkov, born in 1986, majored in organic chemistry at D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia and completed his PhD in 2012 on the synthesis of azacrown ethers. He works in the Department of Chemistry and Technology of Biomedical Preparations, D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia and has been an Associate Professor there since 2015. In 2016, he became Deputy Director for Development at the JSC Fine Chemicals R&D Centre, Moscow, Russia. Scientific awards: 2009, 2011: Laureate of All-Russia Exhibition Centre. 2009: The Winner of scientific development program “Participant of the Youth Scientific and Innovation Contest”. 2015: Awarded a gold medal from Moscow International Salon of Inventions and Innovation Technologies “Archimedes-2015”. Scientific interests: organic synthesis; fluorescent-tagged antiscalants; fluorescence; chemical engineering.