Associate Professor, Vladislav Isaev received his PhD in Engineering Geology, GeoCryology and Hydrogeology at the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1993. From 2005, he has extended his research interests to Arctic coastal erosion, Arctic climate prediction and numerical simulation of thermal fields in frozen grounds as well as usage of thermal stabilization devices as a solution for sustainability of industrial objects on permafrost. He is also currently a visiting professor of Sankt-Petersburg State University within the Corelis program, Cold regions Environmental Landscapes Integrated Science (earth.spbu.ru/join/join-m/ms-ecology/corelis), a visiting professor of NTNU (Norway, Trondheim), “Design of Roads and Railways in Cold Climate” course (https://www.ntnu.edu/ibm/design-of-roads-and-railways-in-cold-climate), and a project manager of RuNoCORE 2018-2021 project ("Russian-Norwegian research-based education in cold regions engineering” (https://diku.no/en/programmes/the-cooperation-programme-with-russia).