Prof S.V. Utyuzhnikov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), a leading Russian technological university also known as PhysTech, in 1983 (with 1st class degree). In 1986, he earned a PhD in Computational Mathematics at MIPT. Since 1986, he has worked at MIPT as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor. In 1997, he successfully defended his DSc thesis (Habilitation degree). In 1999, he was awarded the title of Professor in Computational Mathematics by the Russian Ministry of Education that corresponds to the highest academic qualification in Russia. Since 2001, Prof S.V. Utyuzhnikov has been working in leading UK universities (UMIST, Cranfied University and Manchester University). Prof S.V. Utyuzhnikov developed an efficient numerical method for modeling supersonic viscous flows over blunt bodies, obtained fundamental results in dynamics of large-scale thermals in the atmosphere, and his results on large-scale fires undermined the well-known theory of “nuclear winter”. Prof S.V. Utyuzhnikov (with his progeny) obtained pioneering results in 3D modeling the Tunguska impact and comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collision with Jupiter. For last 20 years, he has been working at the University of Manchester on the development of non-overlapping domain decomposition methods, modeling near-wall turbulent flows, active sound control, Pareto multiobjective optimization under uncertainties and data-driven models.