Mukasyan Alexander, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA since 1996. Ph.D. in physics and math (1986) Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences; Sci. Dc. (1994) Institute of Structural Macrokinetics, Russian Academy of Sciences. The main scientific interest relates to nanotechnology, high-energy-density materials, joining of refractory and dissimilar materials, and catalysis. Co-author of 5 books and 1 text-book, 33 chapters in books and invited reviews, more than 300 research publications in archive journals, and 36 patents, including 14 US patents in the fields of engineering of advanced materials