Elina A Genina Author & Editor

Dan Zhu is a distinguished professor of Huazhong University

of Science and Technology (China), vice-director of Wuhan

National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, and vice-director of

Key Laboratory of Biomedical Photonics (HUST), Ministry

of Education.

Her research interests include tissue optical imaging theory

and methods, with a particular focus on tissue optical

clearing imaging and applications. She has authored more

than 150 peer-reviewed articles and reviews.

She was elected Fellow of SPIE, and secretary general and

vice president of Biomedical Photonics Committee of the

Chinese Optical Society. She has served as chair or co-chair

at various international and domestic conferences, and as

guest editor or editorial member of various journals, including

Biomedical Optics Express, Journal of Biomedical Optics,

Scientific Reports, Journal of Innovative Optical Health

Sciences, and Frontier of Optoelectronics.

Valery V. Tuchin is a corresponding member of the Russian

Academy of Sciences, professor and head of the Department of

Optics and Biophotonics, and director of the Scientific Medical

Center at Saratov State University. He is also the head of the

laboratory for laser diagnostics of technical and living systems

at the Institute of Precise Mechanics and Control of the

RAS, and a supervisor of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of

Biophotonics at the National Research Tomsk State University

and the Femtomedicine Laboratory of the ITMO University.

His research interests include biophotonics, biomedical

optics, tissue optics, laser medicine, tissue optical clearing,

and nanobiophotonics.

He is a member of SPIE, OSA, and IEEE, a visiting professor

at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)

and Tianjin Universities (China), and an adjunct professor at the

University of Limerick (Ireland) and the National University

of Ireland – Galway (Ireland).

Professor Tuchin was elected Fellow of SPIE and OSA and

he was awarded many titles and awards, including Honored

Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honored Professor of SSU,

Honored Professor of Finland (FiDiPro), SPIE in the field of

optical education, Chime Bell of Hubei province (China),

Joseph Goodman (OSA / SPIE) for Outstanding Monograph

(2015), Michael Feld (OSA) for Pioneering Research in

Biophotonics (2019), the Medal of the D.S. Rozhdestvensky

Optical Society (2018), and the Alexander Mikhailovich

Prokhorov medal of the Academy of Engineering Sciences,

named after A.M. Prokhorov (2021).

He is the author of over 700 articles (Web of Science) and

30 monographs and textbooks, he has over 60 patents, and his

work has been cited over 30000 times.

Elina A. Genina is a professor in the Departments of Optics

and Biophotonics at Saratov State University (Russia). Her

research interests include biomedical optics, laser medicine,

nanobiophotonics, and the development of methods for

the control of tissue optical properties. She is a coauthor of

more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, analytical reviews,

book chapters, and patents on biomedical optics, and a guest

editor of 18 special issues of journals and proceedings. She

is a member of the editorial board of J. Innovative Optical

Health Sciences, Diagnostics, J. Biomedical Photonics &

Engineering, and The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal.

She is a scientific secretary of the International Symposium on

Optics and Biophotonics (Saratov Fall Meeting) and co-chair

of a conference in the framework of the Symposium. She has

more than 4000 citations and an h-index of 30.