Dr Aleksej M. Rodin heads the Solid State Laser laboratory at the state research institute "Center for Physical Sciences and Technology" in Vilnius, Lithuania. He is the author of 40 scientific papers,18 patents and a participant in more than 100 international conferences in the field of laser physics, nonlinear optics, laser materials processing, holography, and ultra-high resolution photosensitive materials, as well as the founder and leading expert of a number of enterprises in the field of laser technologies in Lithuania, Ireland, and Great Britain.