Dr. Y. A. Konstantinov is the head of the Photonics Laboratory in the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics, Perm Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Perm State Technical University in 2006 and received his PhD degree in 2012 from Perm National Research Polytechnical University. His research interests include fiber optics, backscattering, automation of measurements, optical fibers, distributed sensors, fiber optic sensors, sensors, measurement, reflectometry, Rayleigh scattering, Brillouin scattering, polarization maintaining fibers, data processing, birefringence, optical reflectometry, metrology, distributed acoustic sensors.