Elena E. Mastalygina has been a Senior Researcher at the Academic Department of Chemistry and Physics (Laboratory of Advanced Composite Materials and Technologies), Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, since 2013 and a Researcher at the Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry of Synthetic and Natural Polymers Compositions, Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences since 2012. She received a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry at the Department of Biological and Chemical Physics of Polymers, Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2016. She has knowledge in the fields of physical and colloid chemistry, chemistry of high molecular compounds, theoretical and applied ecology, and mycology; working knowledge of physical and chemical instrumental analysis: UV and IR-spectroscopy, TGA, DSC, ESP, X-ray diffraction analysis, ultrasound and optical microscopy, viscometry, determination of mechanical characteristics, thermal oxidation, study of biodegradability (mycological tests), etc. She also has skills related to the preparation of composite polymer materials, including mixing by Brabender and mixing mill and extrusion.