**About the Editor**

## **Mikhail Glyavin**

Mikhail Glyavin was born in Nizhny Novgorod (then known as Gorky), Russia. After graduating from the Gorky Polytechnical Institute he has been working at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he is engaged in the development of high-power gyrotrons. He received a Ph.D. degree and Dr.Sci. in physics from IAP RAS in 1999 and 2009, respectively. Currently he is a Deputy Director of Science and a Head of the Department of Vacuum tubes of IAP RAS. His research interests are in the field of the theoretical and experimental investigations of various gyro-devices, including gyrotrons and their application to materials processing and diagnostics of various media. Under his leadership and with his direct participation, record-breaking frequencies, powers and spectral characteristics of the radiation of gyro devices were achieved both in pulsed and continuous modes of generation; pioneering work on initiating a localized gas discharge and experiments on gas spectroscopy with record sensitivity were performed.
