Andrey V. Dunaev is a Professor and a Leading Researcher at the Research and Development Center of Biomedical Photonics at Orel State University (Orel, Russia). His research interests are devoted to multimodal optical diagnostics of microcirculatory-tissue systems, including methodological and metrological support of diagnostic systems. He is a member of SPIE. Professor Dunaev is an Honorary Worker of Science and High Technologies of the Russian Federation. He is an author of more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 5 monographs and has over 10 patents. Valery V. Tuchin is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Optics and Biophotonics and Director of the Science Medical Center of Saratov State University. He is also Head of the Laboratory for Laser Diagnostics of Technical and Living Systems at the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control, FRC "Saratov Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences." His research interests include biophotonics, biomedical optics, tissue optics, laser medicine, tissue optical clearing, and nanobiophotonics. He is a member of SPIE, OSA, and IEEE, Visiting Professor at HUST (Wuhan) and Tianjin Universities in China, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick (Ireland) and the National University of Ireland (Galway). Professor Tuchin is elected Fellow SPIE and OSA (OPTICA), he was awarded many titles and awards, including Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honored Professor of SSU, Honored Professor of Finland (FiDiPro), SPIE Educational Award, Chime Bell Award of Hubei province (China), Joseph Goodman Award (OSA / SPIE) for Outstanding Monograph (2015), Michael Feld Award (OSA) for Pioneering Research in Biophotonics (2019), the Medal of the D.S. Rozhdestvensky Optical Society (2018) and the A.M. Prokhorov medal of the Academy of Engineering Sciences named after A.M. Prokhorov (2021). He is the author of over 1000 articles, 30 monographs, and textbooks, has over 60 patents, his works have been cited over 33,800 times.
