Yuri A. Lebedev was born in the USSR. Education: Engineer of electronics (1968) and physicist (1974). University degrees: Ph.D. (1977) and Doctor of Sciences in Plasma Physics (1993). He has over 50 years of research experience in low-temperature plasma, electric gas discharges, microwave plasma, plasma chemistry, and plasma diagnostics and modeling. He is a member of the editorial boards of several journals and has published over 450 papers and is the editor and co-author of 9 books. He is a member of the EPS, the deputy chairman of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Physics of Low Temperature Plasma, a member of the Executive Boards of the United Physical Society of the Russian Federation, the Moscow Physical Society, and a member and one of the founders of the International Scientific Committee on Microwave Discharges: Fundamentals and Applications (Chairman 1997–2000, 2003–2006, 2009–2012, and 2015–2018). Affiliation from 1971 to the present day: A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (head of the Laboratory of Plasma Chemistry and Physical Chemistry of Pulse Processes since 1996 until 2018; he now holds the position of chief researcher).