1. Vladimir Arutyunov, Chief Scientific Researcher at the N.N. Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics; 2. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Department of Molecular and Chemical Physics (1970), Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1979), Dr. Sci. in Chemistry (Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, 1993), Academic status: Professor (2003); 3. Fifty-two years of scientific activity at the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics in the field of oxidative conversion of hydrocarbons, gas phase kinetics, elementary chemical reactions, kinetic modeling, ecology, and social problems of science and education. More than 500 scientific publications, including 10 monographs and 37 patents; 4. Kinetics of complex gas phase reactions; oxidative conversion of methane, natural gas. and gas-phase hydrocarbons; kinetic simulation; elementary chemical reactions; ecological problems of energy and transport; and social problems of science and education; 5. Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.