Sofiya L Selektor graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering in 1983. She received aPh.D. and Dr. Hab. degrees in 1989 and in 2014 from the Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPCE RAS); the first in the field of chemical resistance of materials and corrosion protection and the second in the field of physical chemistry. Currently she is a chief researcher and head of the laboratory of physical chemistry of supramolecular systems at the IPCE RAS. Her research interests are in the area of Langmuir monolayers and ultrathin films with tunable properties.