Alexei A. Kamshilin was graduated from the Leningrad State University in 1974. He received his PhD from the A.F. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute in 1982, and D.Sc. from the Vavilov State Optical Institute in 1995. His academic carrier started in 1974 in USSR, continued in Brazil from 1990 to 1992, then in Finland from 1992 to 2014 where he was researching and teaching in different universities of Finland. From 2014 to 2020 he was professor of the ITMO University (St. Petersburg, Russia). Since 2020 he is chief scientist in the Institute of Automation and Control Processes of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia. His research interest includes nonlinear and coherent optics, photorefractive and photo-galvanic effects, optical sensors technology, adaptive interferometry and multispectral imaging for biomedical and industrial applications. In these fields, he has published more than 260 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is a senior member of the Optica (formerly Optical Society of America).