Alexei V. Finkelstein, born June 16, 1947, graduated with honors from the Moscow Phys.-Tech. (1970), and later earned his PhD from the Moscow Phys.-Tech. (1976) and DSc from the Moscow Lomonosov University (1991). Since 1970, he has been with the Institute of Protein Research (Russian Academy of Sciences), Protein Physics Laboratory (then headed by Prof. O.B. Ptitsyn). Now he heads this laboratory (since 1999). He is currently a Professor at the Moscow Lomonosov University (since 1998), and a Soros Professor (2001). He is the author of >300 papers, and has written a book titled "Protein Physics", which is published in Russian (6 editions), English (2 editions), and Chinese (2 editions), as well as another book titled "Physics of Protein Molecules" (available in Russian). Citation index: >12000, Hirsch index: 52. Expertise: Molecular and protein physics; protein structures, folding, and design; structural transitions in proteins and amyloids; antifreeze proteins and ice nucleators; phase transitions; the Mpemba effect; force fields; molecular biology; and bioinformatics. He has received awards from FIRCA, INTAS, CASP, HHMI (3 times), NWO, RSF, etc., as well as the State Prize of Russia in Science & Technology (1999). He has been elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences (2008).