Dr. Sergey B. Leonov received his PhD from the Baltic State University in 1990 and a senior Doctor of Science degree from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2006. He has worked in research and higher education institutions in Moscow, Russia, including the Joint Institute for High Temperature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he was a Head of Department, and, concurrently, Moscow Open University. where he was a Professor. From 2013 to 2014, he was a Visiting Professor at Ohio State University. He is currently a Full Research Professor at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests and contributions include weakly ionized plasmas, plasma aerodynamics, aerothermodynamics, supersonic combustion, and active flow control.