ARIF SALIMOV is Full Professor and Head of the Department Algebra and Geometry, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Baku State University. An Azerbaijani/Soviet mathematician, honoured scientist of Azerbaijan, he is known for his research in differential geometry. He earned his B.Sc. degree from Baku State University, Azerbaijan, in 1978, a PhD and Doctor of Sciences (Habilitation) degrees in geometry from Kazan State University, Russia, in 1984 and 1998, respectively. His advisor was Vladimir Vishnevskii. He is an author/co-author of more than 100 research papers. His primary areas of research are theory of lifts in tensor bundles, geometrical applications of tensor operators, special Riemannian manifolds, indefinite metrics and general geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product, hypercomplex, Norden structures, etc.).