Prof. Alexander A. Baykov is a Professor and the Head of the Division of Protein Chemistry at the A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. He graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University in 1970 and has worked in the A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology since 1970. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1975 and Sci. D. in Chemistry in 1986. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Turku, Finland, in 2009. His research interests include: enzymology, catalysis, protein chemistry, and membrane transport.