Prof. Dr. Sci. Vladimir A. Bershtein Vladimir A. Bershtein, born in Leningrad (St.-Petersburg, Russia), was graduated Master's degree on polymers technology from Leningrad Technological Institute in 1954. He completed his PhD degree in 1963 and Dr.

Sci. (Phys.-Math.) dissertation in 1980. He is Professor from 1991. From 1965 up to now he is Leading Research Scientist and Head of research group in Materials Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Solid State Physics, at the Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russia. Dr.

Pavel N. Yakushev Pavel N. Yakushev, born in Leningrad, Russia, graduated Master's degree on Electronics from named at present Peter the Great St.-Petersburg Polytechnic University in 1977, and then joined to the Solid State Physics Department of the Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he completed his PhD in 1988 and now is a Senior researcher. Having worked at several laboratories abroad within the framework of international exchange programs, he e.g. spent a half an year at the Ford Research Laboratories, Dearborn, USA. Currently, he is investigating the anomalies of segmental dynamics, nanoscale dynamic/structural/compositional heterogeneity, and nanostructure-dynamics-properties relationships in complex polymer systems and nanocomposites.