Prof. Dr. Sci. Elshad Allahyarov is a theoretical physicist. He graduated as a theoretical physicist from the Physics Department of Moscow State University in 1988. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in 1994, and the Doctor of Sciences (Dr. Sci.) degree from the Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the RAS in 2005. Since 1988 he has been a senior scientist in the Theoretical Department of JIHT RAS, Moscow. Since 1995 he has been a staff scientist at the Institute for Theoretical Physics II: Soft Matter, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Since 2006 he has been a visiting professor / researcher in the Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Since 2025 he has been a research scientist at the Recognition Physics Institute, Austin, Texas. His research covers statistical mechanics and computer simulation of many-body soft and charged systems: colloids and bio-colloids, strongly correlated Coulomb fluids, macromolecules and polymers, demixing and phase separation under external fields, and polymer nanodielectrics for fuel cells and capacitive energy storage. Recent work includes field-driven clustering of polarizable inclusions, ferroelectric and piezoelectric polymers, and Guest Editorship of the Entropy Special Issue “Symmetry Breaking Leading to Self-Organization in Open and Closed Complex Systems: From Entropy to Dissipation.”