**About the Editors**

#### **Andrey Suzdaltsev**

Andrey Suzdaltsev received his education from Ural Federal University (high school) and the Institute of High-Temperature Electrochemistry (post-graduate school). Andrey Suzdaltsev completed his PhD thesis on "Anodic processes on carbon in KF-AlF3-Al2O3 melts" (2011), and his Dr. Habil. thesis on "Electrode processes at production of aluminum and its alloys in KF-AlF3-Al2O3 melts" (2022). His scientific interests are related to the study of the kinetics and mechanisms of electrode and chemical processes during the production of pure metals, alloys, and composite materials in molten salts. He has solved various scientific and practical tasks: establishing the laws of physical and chemical processes in molten salts in order to develop the scientific foundations for new energy-efficient methods and technologies for the synthesis of popular elements, alloys, and materials. In particular, with his direct participation, the fundamentals of technologies for the electrolytic production of aluminum alloys and master alloys from oxide raw materials were developed. At present, the scientific laboratory under the leadership of Suzdaltsev Andrey deals with the establishment of laws governing the electrochemical synthesis of silicon and materials based on it for microelectronics and devices for converting and storing energy.

#### **Oksana Rakhmanova**

Dr. Oksana Rakhmanova graduated from the Ural State University (Yekaterinburg, Russia) in 2004 and obtained her degree in physics. During 2004-2008, she was a PhD student at the Institute of industrial ecology of the UB RAS. In 2009, she defended her dissertation and obtained her PhD degree in Physics. Her scientific work was devoted to the investigation of the absorption mechanisms of water clusters in the atmosphere interacting with different greenhouse (CO2, N2O, CH4, O3) and atmospheric (N2, O2, C2H2, C2H6) gases using the the method of molecular dynamics (MDs) simulation. During 2009-2015, she investigated the properties of two-dimensional structures, such as graphene and mechanisms of its cleaning from heavy metals (Pb, Hg) by bombarding the surface with Ar stream with different energies. In 2015, she started working for the Institute of High-Temperature Electrochemistry of the UB RAS (IHTE UB RAS) as a senior researcher. Since then, one of her scientific interests has been connected with the MD investigation of silicene as a promising anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) of a new generation. Her other scientific theme is devoted to MD searching the imitators for actinides (Pu, Am, Cm) in FLiNaK molten salt in the application to molten salt reactors. The dynamic, kinetic, and structural properties of molten FLiNaK with different lanthanides fluorides (Ce, Nd, La) are simulated. The model is verified according to the experimental data (density, viscosity, thermal conductivity). And the next step of the MD model is the prediction of the properties of molten salts containing actinides fluorides in different concentrations. Dr. Rakhmanova is the co-author of 72 WoS publications, her h-index is 12, and she is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal *Electrochemical Materials and Technologies* published at the Ural Federal University.
