**About the Editor**

**Galina V. Kurlyandskaya**, IEEE Senior Member, graduated from the Physics Department of Ural State University A.M. Gorky, Ekaterinburg, Russia, in 1983. She started her research work in 1983 at the Institute of Metal Physics UD RAS. She obtained her PhD in physics of magnetic phenomena in 1990 and her Doctor of Science degree in 2007 from Ural State University A.M. Gorky. Prof. Kurlyandskaya received advanced training at the Institute of Applied Magnetism, University of Complutense, University of Oviedo, University of the Basque Country, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea UPV/EHU, University of Dusseldorf Heinrich Heine, ENS Cashan, University of Maryland, Rowan University, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Ural State University A.M. Gorky, Ural Federal University B.N. Yeltsin (Laboratory of Magnetic Sensors), Brazilian Research Center of Physics (CBPF) and University of Santa Maria. Her main research areas are fabrication and the magnetic and transport properties of nanostructured magnetic materials, magnetic domain structure, magnetoabsorption, magnetic sensors and biosensors, and biomedical applications of magnetic nanocomposites.
