Dr. Pavel Padnya graduated from the Chemistry Faculty of Kazan Federal University in 2010 and defended his PhD thesis in 2015 at Kazan Federal University. After that, he worked as an engineer and researcher at the Organic Chemistry Department of Kazan Federal University, Russia. Since 2019, he has been a senior researcher at the above department. He is the author of 70 publications in peer-reviewed international journals (h-index 17, Scopus). He is a topical advisory panel member of Nanomaterials (MDPI) and the Journal of Functional Biomaterials (MDPI). His research activity covers the design, synthesis, and study of applications of macrocyclic compounds and nanomaterials