Prof. Boris Malomed received his PhD from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1981) and his Doctor of Science degree from the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1989). He worked with the Institute for Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) until 1991. Since 1991, he has been an Associate Professor and a Full Professor at Tel Aviv University. He has been a holder of the "Optical Solitons" Chair since 1999. He has published more than 1300 papers. His h-index is 97 (WoS)/114 (Google Scholar). He is an Editor-in-Chief of journal Photonic and Quantum Waves and an editor of journals Physics Letters A andChaos, Solitons & Fractals. He is a senior member of the Optical Society of America.