Valentina  A. Kratasyuk is a Professor and Head of the Department of  Biophysics at Siberian Federal University. She has been a Leading Researcher at the Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Biophysics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk since 1995, and a Courtesy Professor of the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Florida (USA) since 2007. She received her Kandidatskaya degree (Ph.D.) in 1985 and her Doctoral degree (D.Sc.) in 1995 in Biological Sciences (Biophysics) at the Institute of Biophysics, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Her research interests include Biophysical Chemistry, Bioluminescent Biotechnology, Biosensors, and Environment and Biological monitoring. She has developed a new bioluminescent enzymatic toxicity bioassay using enzymes of luminous bacteria for ecological monitoring of water, air, and soil, space biotechnology, and medicine. She has published more than 300 papers in various journals. Her teaching disciplines include biophysics, biology, history and methodology of biology, etc. She is a member of the Scientific Council of the International Society of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence and a member of the International Society of Environment  Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC).