Yuri M Romanovsky is a Full Professor in the Department of Physics of the Moscow State University and a Head of Laboratory of Biophotonics and Mathematical Biophysics. He received his Dr Sci. degree in physics from Moscow State University (1976). He is a coauthor of seven monographs in Mathematical Biophysics and Nonlinear Dynamics, published in Russian, English, German and Polish. He has been investigating the biophysics of cell motility, biopotentials of plants and molecular dynamics by the methods of optical diagnostics and mathematical modelling for the last 30 years. For many years he is