Dr. Inna Tolpeshta is Head of the Department of Soil Chemistry, Faculty of Soil Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Dr. Tolpeshta is an expert in clay mineralogy. She is author/co-author of about 100 peer-reviewed publications. Her interests include: transformation of clay minerals in the process of soil formation and under anthropogenic impact on soils, sorption of heavy metals, radionuclides and organic pollutants by soils and clay minerals, soil and water remediation by sorbents based on clay minerals and organoclays.