**About the Editor**

**Jurij J. Sidor** is full professor at Eotv ¨ os Lor ¨ and University (ELTE), Faculty of Informatics, ´ Savaria Institute of Technology in Hungary. He gained his PhD in the field of Materials Science in 2004, habilitation as associate professor in Materials Science and Technology in 2017, and defended the doctoral thesis for gaining the academic title of Doctor of Sciences (DrSc) in 2021. In his research career, he has been working at the Institute of Materials Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), Ghent University (Belgium), University of Science and Technology of Beijing (China) and University of West Hungary (Hungary). The research activities are related to the development of both novel processing technologies and quantitative physically based models. These numerical approaches help the optimization of production technology and materials properties. The research area of the author covers the field of virtual material processing, materials characterization by Scanning Electron Microscopy, electron backscatter diffraction and mechanical testing. In this field, Prof. Sidor published more than 70 scientific papers, two book chapters and presented his results at numerous international scientific events as keynote or invited lecturer. According to Scopus and Google Scholar databases, his scientific publications have been cited more than 1000 times. Numerous discoveries in the fields of modelling and examination of microstructure and texture evolution in polycrystalline metallic systems resulted in several national and international awards and recognitions. For his reviewing activity, he was awarded several times by outstanding reviewer's recognition.
