Larisa I. Krotova is a research officer at the Laboratory of Supercritical Fluid Technologies, Institute of Photonic Technologies (former Institute of Laser and Information Technologies) of the Federal Research Center "Crystallography and Photonics" at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. She is a specialist in the field of spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Her current research interests include supercritical fluid technologies for advanced biomaterials and photonics, tissue engineering, and pharmaceuticals.