**Vladislav V. Gurzhiy**

Vladislav V. Gurzhiy is an Associate Professor of the Crystallography Department of the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Saint Petersburg State University, and also holds the position of Chairman of the Institute of Earth Sciences' Scientific Committee. Dr. Gurzhiy was graduated from the St. Petersburg State University in 2007, received a Ph.D. degree in 2009, and a Dr. Habil. degree (Russian Doctor of Science degree in Geology and Mineralogy) in 2022 with a dissertation entitled "The Crystal chemistry of natural and synthetic uranyl sulfates, selenites and selenates". His main research interests are related to the crystal chemistry of minerals and their synthetic analogs, in particular those 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, a member of the Academic Council of the St. Petersburg State University (since 2020) and a member of the Academic Council of the Russian Mineralogical Society (since 2021). He has published over 180 peer-reviewed journal articles and several book chapters. Dr. Gurzhiy was 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.
