Olga N. Tchaikovskaya was born in 1964. She received a specialist’s degree from the Department of Physics, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia in 1995. She also received a Candidate of Science and a second doctoral degree in physics and mathematics from Tomsk State University, Tomsk in 2008. She is currently a professor at Tomsk University. She also works with the Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Her current research interests include photochemical and plasma chemical physics, quantum chemistry, the electronic states of molecules, UV and electron beam action, athodoluminescence and fluorescence.