Andrey O. DOROSHENKO, Head of Department of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Kharkiv V.N. Karazin National University, Ukraine. Graduate of Kharkov State University (1981). He received his PhD degree in 1990 (thesis: “Nature and reaction ability of the excited states in the series of isocarbostyryl derivatives”) and DSc degree in 2002 (thesis: “Structure and photonics of abnormally high Stokes shift organic luminophores”). He became a Professor in Physical Chemistry in 2003. Work experience: Institute for Chemistry at Kharkiv V.N. Karazin National University (from 1986: researcher, senior researcher, head of laboratory, Head of Department of Physical Organic Chemistry); School of Chemistry, Kharkiv V.N. Karazin National University (from 2002: Associate Professor, Full Professor, Head of Department of Organic Chemistry). Research interests: electronic absorption and emission spectroscopy; time-resolved fluorometry of organic compounds with respect to reaction ability in the electronically excited states; primary photophysical and photochemical processes, which result in abnormally high Stokes shifted fluorescence emission; excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT); quantum-chemical calculations; protolytic interactions and metal ions complex formation in the ground and excited states; molecular photochemistry; and design and application of organic compounds as fluorescent probes and sensors. Member of European Photochemical Association (EPA), 1997–2004.