**About the Editor**

#### **Volodymyr Chernenko**

Volodymyr Chernenko (Prof. Dr.) Volodymyr Chernenko is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures (BCMaterials) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His professional interest is focused on research and development of multifunctional magnetic shape memory materials, magnetomechanics of martensites, thin films and nanotechnologies of the ferromagnetic martensites. Since the late 1980s, he is known world-wide as one of the founders of the new research area "Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys (FSMAs)".He is the author of more than 350 original papers in ISI scientific journals, 9 book chapters (4 Elsevier, 3 Springer) and 6 review articles, with more than 10,600 citations and an h-index equal to 51 (Google Scholar). He has been a guest editor of five special topic books on FSMAs.
