Professor Valery V. Tuchin holds the Optics and Biophotonics Chair and is a Director of Research-Educational Institute of Optics and Biophotonics at Saratov State University, Russia Head of Laboratory on Laser Diagnostics of Technical and Living Systems, Inst. of Precise Mechanics and Control, RAS. His research interests include biophotonics, biomedical optics and laser medicine, physics of optical and laser measurements. ... Read moreHe has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and books, including his latest, Tissue Optics. Light Scattering Methods and Instrumentation for Medical Diagnosis (PM166, SPIE Press, second edition, 2007), Handbook of Optical Sensing of Glucose in Biological Fluids and Tissues (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2009), Handbook of Photonics for Biomedical Science (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2010), and Advanced Optical Cytometry: Methods and Disease Diagnoses (WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, 2011). He has been awarded Honored Science Worker of the Russian Federation and SPIE Fellow; he is a Vice-President of Russian Photobiology Society. In 2007 he was awarded the SPIE Educator Award. He is a FiDiPro Professor (Finland Distinguished Professor Program, awarded by TEKES for the period 2011-2014). Show Less