Serguei P. Palto graduated at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1977 -1983). He received PhD degree in 1989 and Doctor of Sciences degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1999. He is the head of the Laboratory of Liquid crystals at Institute of Crystallography RAS in Moscow, Russia. His expertise is in condensed matter physics; research interests include physics of liquid crystals and thin organized films, optics of non-homogeneous anisotropic media, photon crystal based microlasers, spectroscopy and stark-spectroscopy, physics of ferroelectric films. Serguei P. Palto published over 200 scientific papers in leading Russian and International journals, holds more than 10 patents