Dr. Anton Desyatnikov graduated with MSc degree in 1998 and obtained PhD in Laser Physics from Moscow Engineering Physical Institute in 2000. He has worked as a visiting fellow in Australia and Spain, completed Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship in Germany in 2002-2003, and, for over a decade, has been working at the Australian National University, completing the Australian Research Fellowship in 2008-2012. Dr. Desyatnikov took the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Physics SST NU in 2015, he was promoted to Full Professor in 2016, and, since 2020, he has taken the role and responsibilities of the Department Chair. His main research area is nonlinear and singular optics, including the dynamics of optical solitons and nonlinear waves, optical vortices and polarization singularities, angular momentum of light, and photonic lattices.