Dr. Konstantin Maslakov is a senior researcher at the Department of Chemistry of Lomonosov Moscow State University. He graduated from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI in 1999 (MS degree). In 1999–2012, he worked at the National Research Center «Kurchatov Institute», where he obtained his PhD degree in chemical physics in 2007. Since 2012, he has been a senior scientist at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. His research interests include surface analysis of carbon nanomaterials, catalysts, composites, transition metal compounds by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and the characterization of materials by low temperature physisorption of gases.