Pikalova Elena (09.06.1965) Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Institute of High-Temperature Electrochemistry, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 20 Academicheskaya Street, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 620137 E-mail: e.pikalova@list.ru Phone: +7(343)3623194 Dr. Elena Pikalova obtained her specialist degree in physics in 1985 and Ph.D 02.00.04 in “Physical chemistry” in 2011. At the moment, Elena Pikalova is the leader of a group on the development of cathode materials for SOFCs and the leading researcher in an engineering and economic interdisciplinary research group in energy and high-tech industries at the Department of Environmental Economics, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University. Dr. Elena Pikalova is the author of 109 documents indexed in Scopus database with h-index=25 (ResearcherID: L-6877-2017; Scopus ID: 16242376500; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-9417), eight patents and one monograph. Areas of scientific interest and research: alternative energy sources, SOFCs, solid-state electrolytes, cathode materials, MIEC membranes, impedance spectroscopy, and thin-film technologies.