**About the Editor**

### **Suleyman Allakhverdiev**

Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev is the Head of the Controlled Photobiosynthesis Laboratory at the K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). He obtained his BS and MS in Physics from the Department of Physics, Azerbaijan State University, Baku. He obtained his Dr. Sci. Degree in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry from the Institute of Plant Physiology, RAS (2002, Moscow). In 2018, he was recognized as being first in the ranking of the most highly cited scientists in Russia. In 2019, he was the winner of the K.A. Timiryazev Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2021, he became the laureate of "Global Energy Prize" in the "Non-conventional energy" category for his outstanding contribution to the development of alternative energy, particularly his design for a system of artificial photosynthesis and for his cycle of scientific works on bioenergy and hydrogen energy. In 2022, The Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation Title was given to him as an assessment of his outstanding contribution to plant biology development and the study of the fundamental principles of photosynthesis. In 2022, he was elected as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2018–2023, he was recognized by Thomson Reuters-WoS (Clarivate Analytics) as one of the Highly Cited world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, and entered the list of the most highly cited scientists of the world (1% of the total number of researchers).
