Viacheslav Petrovich BUDAEV (1960) graduated from Novosibirsk State University, Physics Department in 1982, on quantum physics of solids. In 1983-1998 he worked at the Institute for High Temperature, Russian Academy of Science on tokamak TF-2 establishing, constructing and exploiting this fusion device. In 1990 he completed his PhD (Candidate of Science degree) at the Institute for High Temperature, Russian Academy of Science on edge plasma turbulence in tokamaks. In 2010 he defended his doctoral thesis (Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Sciences degree) at Kurchatov Institute, Moscow on generalized multiscale properties of plasma turbulence. From 1998 he has been working at Kurchatov Institute, department of tokamak T-10, as the leading scientist dealing with the problem of plasma–surface interaction and fusion materials in tokamaks and fusion plasma devices. For 1 year (2000-2001), he was the JSPS fellowship professor at Nagoya University in Japan. From 2016 he is the full professor of NRU “MPEI” (Moscow Power Engineering Institute), Department of General Physics and Nuclear Fusion. In 2017 he established the research group on ‘Fusion Material Science and Plasma Physics’ at National Research University “MPEI”. In 2004 he was awarded the Kurchatov prize on investigations of edge plasma in tokamaks, the author of over 150 publications. His h-index is 21.