Roman Vladimirovich Lepikash, master of chemistry was the 2021–2023 candidate for a master's degree from Tula State University. In 2021, he presented as a junior scientific researcher at the Laboratory of Ecological and Medical Biotechnology, Tula State University, Tula, Russia. From 2023 to the present, he has served as an assistant at the Department of Biotechnology, Tula State University, Tula, Russia. Email: mr.romalep@yandex.ru. ORCID; 0000-0001-7853-2937.

Daria Gennadievna Lavrova's education is as follows: 2009–2014, chemist at Tula State University, honors degree; 2014–2016, master's degree in chemistry, Tula State University, honors degree; 2016–2020, PhD student, Tula State University (06.06.01, biotechnology); 2021, PhD in biotechnology. Her affiliations are as follows: since 01.01.2023, senior researcher, Laboratory of Ecological and Medical Biotechnology; 2020–2023, assistant at the Department of Biotechnology of Tula State University in the disciplines of the fundamentals of biotechnology, biotechnology for environmental protection, and biochemistry in medicine; since 01.09.2023, associate professor at the Department of Biotechnology; since 2021, deputy director of the Natural Science Institute for scientific work. Her research interests are as follows: whole cells' encapsulation, biomimetic materials, sol-gel technologies, organosilica matrices, biocompatible silica polyolates, and biocatalysts. Email: d.g.fedoseeva@gmail.com. ORCID: 0000-0001-5708-5453. ResearcherID: R-4620-2016. Scopus author ID: 57190256325

Devard Stom holds an ScD in biology from the Research Institute of Biology, Irkutsk State University, Karl Marks Street 1, 664003, Irkutsk, Russia; Baikal Museum SB RAS, Akademicheskaya Street 1, 664520 Listvyanka, Russia; Institute of Natural and Technical Sciences, Surgut State University, Energetikov Street 22, 628412 Surgut, Russia. Email: stomd@mail.ru. ORCID: 0000-0001-9496-2961. ResearcherID: A-4144-2017. Scopus author ID: 7003745242.

Valery Meshalkin holds an ScD in Technical Science and is an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the head of the Department of Logistics and Economic Informatics at the International Institute of Resource Saving Logistics and Technological Innovation, Dmitry Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, 125047 Moscow, Russia Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology, Moscow Pr. 24-26/49, 190013, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Email: vpmeshalkin@gmail.com. ORCID: 0000-0001-6956-6705. Scopus author ID: 7003598541.

Olga Ponamoreva holds an ScD in biotechnology from 2013 and a PhD in bioorganic chemistry from 1997 She is on the Postgraduate Studies and Dissertation Council of the Russian Technological University and part of the Moscow master's degree program of Russian Technological University. From 2014 to the present, she has been the head of the Biotechnology Department, Tula State University, Tula, Russia. From 2005 to 2014, she was an associate professor at the Department of Biotechnology. From 1998 to 2005, she was an associate professor at the Department of Chemistry, Tula State University. From 1993 to 1998, she was an assistant at the Department of Biotechnology, Tula State University. Her research interests include microbial and enzyme biocatalysis, bioelectrochemistry, biosensors, biosurfactants, biodegradation, and immobilization. She is a member of the Russian Society of Biotechnologists. ORCID: 0000-0003-3481-2552. Researcher ID: K-2331-2012. Scopus author ID: 12240551500. Email: olga@tsu.tula.ru.

Sergey Valerievich Alferov holds a PhD in biotechnology. He is the head of the Laboratory of Ecological and Medical Biotechnology. From 2021 to the present, he has been the head of the Laboratory of Ecological and Medical Biotechnology, Tula State University, Tula, Russia. From 2011 to 2021, he was an associate professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Tula State University, Tula, Russia. From 2007 to 2008, he was a project assistant at the Biochemistry Department, Lund University, Sweden. From 2006 to 2011, he was an assistant at the Chemistry Department, Tula State University, Tula, Russia. From 2004 to 2007, he was a laboratory assistant at the Laboratory of Biosensors, G.K. Skriabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow region. From 2006 to 2010, he earned a PhD from the Pushchino State University Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology. From 2004 to 2006, he completed two years of study in post-university courses (magistracy) at the Pushchino State University Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia. He holds a master's degree in biology. From 1999 to 2004, he completed five years of study at the Tula State University Chemistry Department, Tula, Russia. He is a specialist in chemistry. Email: s.v.alferov@gmail.com and s.v.alferov@tsu.tula.ru. ORCID: 0000-0002-5217-7815. Scopus author ID: 56585795000. Researcher ID: E-7049-2014.