Prof. Dr. Sergey I. Popel graduated with honours from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1988. He defended his PhD thesis at MIPT in 1991 and DSc thesis at the General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1998. At present, he is a head of laboratory at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and full professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is an expert in the fields of plasma physics and chemistry, planetary sciences, nano- and microscale objects in nature, self-organization, etc. He was awarded with Humboldt fellowship (Germany), awards of the Moscow Government and the Dynasty Foundation, Prize of International Academic Publishing Company “Nauka/Interperiodica” for the best publication in the journals published by the Company, Yu. A. Gagarin Medal of the Federation of Cosmonautics of Russia for services to cosmonautics, et Prof. Dr. Sergey I. Popel graduated with honours from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1988. He defended his PhD thesis at MIPT in 1991 and DSc thesis at the General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1998. At present, he is a head of laboratory at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and full professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is an expert in the fields of plasma physics and chemistry, planetary sciences, nano- and microscale objects in nature, self-organization, etc. He was awarded with Humboldt fellowship (Germany), awards of the Moscow Government and the Dynasty Foundation, Prize of International Academic Publishing Company “Nauka/Interperiodica” for the best publication in the journals published by the Company, Yu. A. Gagarin Medal of the Federation of Cosmonautics of Russia for services to cosmonautics, et

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