Leonid Kustov is a doctor of chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. He has been the chief researcher of the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1978 to the present. He has been the laboratory head of the Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University from 1999 to the present. He has been the head of the Nanochemistry and Ecology Laboratory, NUST MISIS from 2015 to the present. He is also a member of the scientific council of the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, scientific and technical council of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor), two dissertation councils, scientific councils of the RAS on catalysis, organic chemistry, and physical chemistry, editorial boards of the Russian Chemical Journal, the “Catalysis in Industry” journal, the Journal of Physical Chemistry, Metals, Molecules, Crystals. His research interests include catalysis, nanomaterials, hybrid nanomaterials, adsorbents, “green” chemistry, spectroscopy of nanomaterials, complex processing of natural, associated petroleum gases and biogas, and catalytic synthesis of organic compounds.