Valery Sorokin is the Head of the Laboratory, Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation (IZMIRAN), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Education and academic degrees: Moscow Engineering Physical Institute (MEPHI), Master’s degree in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, 1969, Moscow, USSR; PhD in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics for the work "Investigation of geomagnetic field variations" in the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Optical and Physical Measurements, 1975, Moscow, USSR; Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences degree for the work "Wave processes in the ionosphere related to geomagnetic field" in the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation (IZMIRAN), 1990, Troitsk, Moscow Region, USSR. Fellow of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Member of American Geophysical Union, Professor in General and Applied Physics. Employment: All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Optical and Physical Measurements, Moscow, USSR; 1969-1994, researcher, senior researcher, leading scientist. Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation (IZMIRAN), Troitsk, Moscow, Russia; 1994 – at present, leading scientist, head of Laboratory of Electromagnetic Field Theory. Publications: In total, more than 190 scientific papers and 10 books.

Dr. Victor Novikov is the Head of the Laboratory of Pulsed Power Systems for Geophysics at the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow, Russia, as well the Leading Researcher of the Fedorov Institute of Applied Geophysics, the Senior Researcher of the Sadovsky Institute of Geosphere Dynamics of the RAS, and a Research Supervisor of experimental group at the Research Station of the RAS located at the northern Tien Shan (Kyrgyzstan). He earned his PhD in Pulsed Power Engineering at the Federal Center of Dual Technologies "Soyuz". He recently led the Russian-Chinese Project "Space weather and earthquakes" (2021-2022) and now he is the Principal Investigator of the project "Computational and experimental studies of the physical mechanisms of electromagnetic triggering of earthquakes" (2024-2025) supported by the Russian Science Foundation. He has published 95 papers in various journals. His interests include R&D of pulsed power systems and their application for geology and geophysics, seismicity triggered by high-power electric pulses, the development of the physical backgrounds of earthquake control technology and earthquake short-term prediction based on electromagnetic earthquake triggering phenomena and space weather parameters.