**About the Editors**

### **Tigran Chalikian**

Dr. Tigran V. Chalikian is a Professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the Institute of Biological Physics, Acad. Sci. USSR. His research interests are the biophysical characterization of molecular forces involved in the stabilization of proteins, nucleic acids, and their complexes.

### **Jens V ¨olker**

Dr. Jens Volker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology ¨ at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Cape Town. His research interests lie in the areas of thermodynamics of nucleic acid structure, interactions, and function.
