**About the Editors**

#### **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 the 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 the "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 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 in the world (1% of the total number of researchers).

#### **Alexander G. Ivanov**

Alexander G. Ivanov received the MSc degree in ecology from the University of Sofia and the PhD degree in biophysics from the Institute of Biophysics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is currently a professor of biophysics at the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is also an associate member of the Department of Biology at the University of Western Ontario. He has more than 30 years of experience in photosynthesis and plant physiology research. His research interests include the biophysics of photosynthesis, bioenergetics, membrane dynamics, and plant stress physiology.

#### **Marian Brestic**

Marian Brestic received the MS and PhD degrees at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra. He completed postdoctoral stays at the University of Paris XI and CEA Cadarache in France. He is currently a professor of crop and tree physiology and head of the Institute of Plant and Environmental Studies at that university. He is also a professor at the Department of Botany and Plant Physiology at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague and a visiting professor at the Shandong Agricultural University in China. He led or participated in over 15 national and 20 bilateral and multilateral international projects. He published more than 350 research papers. His research is focused on crop photosynthesis under abiotic stress, plant drought and high-temperature tolerance, and the impact and mitigation of climate extremes on plants.
