Marina G. Shelyapina obtained a Master degree in Physics (1995) and PhD in Condenced Matter Physics (1999) at St Petersburg State University, Russia. She worked as invited reseacher at Neel Institute, National Center for Scientific Research, Grenoble, France. Since 2020 she is a full professor at St Petersburg State University. Her main research fields are related to local structure of solids and dynamics of guest atoms and molecules on their surface or in bulk probed by nuclear magnetic resonance and density functional theory.