Stanislav Ordin graduated in 1972 from the Faculty of Radioelectronics of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, Russia, where he specialized in the quantum theory of solids. In 1974, he joined the Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he is currently a senior research fellow. At the Ioffe Institute, he carried out complex experimental studies on a wide class of materials ranging from metals to dielectrics and from crystals to nanoparticles. Dr Ordin has authored more than 200 scientific papers and 15 patents, as well as 200 popular science articles on the website of the Nanotechnological Society of Russia. He was the scientific supervisor of 10 postgraduate students, all of whom successfully defended their dissertations for doctors of physics and mathematics. He is an ""Honored Inventor of the USSR"" and a member of the editorial board of the scientific and educational journal NBICS-Science, Technology.