Dr. Vladimir S. Tyurin graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) in 1992 and obtained there PhD in organic chemistry in 1996. Postdoctoral work was in the MSU (1996-1998), University of York (1998-1999) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000-2003). Since 2004 he has been working at the Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences as a senior scientist. His main research interests include organic synthesis, transition metal catalysis, porphyrin chemistry, coordination compounds and supramolecular chemistry.