Raoul R. Nigmatullin was born in Kazan in 1947. He graduated from Kazan State University with honors, and then worked in Great Britain in a postdoctoral position at Chelsea College, then at King's College. Since 2014, he has worked at Kazan National Research Technical University. He is the author of more than 300 publications, with a Hirsch index of 30. He is a specialist in data signal processing and dielectric spectroscopy.