Dmitry Pavlovich Savelyev. Born in 1966 in the city of Leningrad, he studied at school in the town of Fryazino near Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute (MGRI) and has been working in Kamchatka since 1991: 1991-2003 - as a geologist at the Kamchatgeolgiya PGO and in the Kamchatka prospecting and survey expedition; since 2002, he has been engaged in scientific work at the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Senior researcher at the IVS FEB RAS, Laboratory of petrology and geochemistry, candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences.