Ivan A. Timofeenko received his PhD (Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences) in Mathematical Logic, Algebra, and Number Theory from Siberian Federal University in 2017. He is currently Head of the City-Farming Laboratory at the Institute of Gastronomy, Siberian Federal University. He worked as Director of R&D at the agro-industrial holding “Dary Malinovki” LLC from 2020 to 2022, where he established and managed a scientific and laboratory unit for high-tech agricultural production. In 2022, he moved to Siberian Federal University and was promoted to Head of the City-Farming Laboratory. His research topics mainly include controlled environment agriculture, vertical farming systems, plant physiology under artificial lighting, and mathematical modeling of plant growth and microclimate systems.