Professor Vladimir Fortov Institute for High Energy Densities, Russian Academy of Sciences, Izhorskaya 13/19, Moscow, 125412, Russia Since 1978, Vladimir Fortov is Director of the Institute for High Energy Density, Russian Academy of Sciences RAS. He is also Head of the Laboratory of the Institute of Chemical Physics, member of the European Academy of Sciences and Art, and corresponding member of the International Academy of Aeronautics. V.E. Fortov received A. Karpinskii (1997), Bridgemen (1999), M. Planck (2002), H. Alfven (2003) and J. Duval (2005) awards. In 2005 he was rewar...