Dmitry Rogatkin, Ph.D., Sci. Dr., heads the Laboratory of Medical and Physics Research in the Moscow Regional Research and Clinical Institute (MONIKI), named after M.F. Vladimirskiy. He initially received a mechanical engineering degree from Moscow High Technical School, named after N.E. Bauman, in 1985. From 1985 to 1991, he was working in the laboratory of applied optics in the Moscow Radio-Technical Institute. In 1994, working at MONIKI, Dmitry Rogatkin received a Ph.D. in physics and mathematics from the Russian Academy of Science (RAS), and in 2005 he received a degree as a Doctor of Technical Science. His scientific interests include the physics of light propagation and scattering, in vivo tissue spectroscopy, problems of laser noninvasive diagnostics in medicine, and the development of laser medical equipment and other biomedical instrumentation, including medical robots. He is the author of around 450 scientific publications in these fields (papers, patents, etc.).