Dr. Michael Storchak is a senior researcher in mechanical engineering. He received his Dipl.-Eng. in 1974, Ph.D. in Engineering in 1984 in mechanical engineering and Dr. Sc. tech. in 1994 in manufacturing engineering. From 1997 to 2023, Dr. Storchak was working at the Institute for Machine Tools at the University of Stuttgart. Since 2023, Dr. Storchak has been working as a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, Ukraine. His research areas and scientific interests cover three main fields: the study of cutting processes, gear processing, and research in the state of metal cutting machines. In the field of cutting processes, Dr. Storchak's main activities are the study and modeling of different cutting processes using tools with definite and indefinite cutting edges and the design, development, and optimization of cutting tools. The results of Dr. Storchak's research and development are presented in two monographs, more than 160 scientific papers, and more than 50 patents.