**About the Editor**

**Vladislav V. Gurzhiy** is an associate professor at the Crystallography Department of the Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, and holds the position of Chairman of the Institute of Earth Sciences' Scientific Committee. Dr. Gurzhiy graduated from St. Petersburg State University in 2007 and completed his PhD in 2009, with a dissertation entitled "Crystal chemistry of uranyl selenates with organic and inorganic cations". His main research interests are related to the crystal chemistry of minerals and their synthetic analogs, in particular, compounds bearing uranium and transuranium elements, and biominerals. Dr. Gurzhiy is a full member of the Russian Mineralogical Society and the Saint-Petersburg Society of Naturalists. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and several book chapters. Dr. Gurzhiy has been honored with several awards, including the Yu.T. Struchkov Prize and Academia Europaea Prize, for research works in the fields of X-ray crystallography and Earth sciences.
