Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev is the Head of Controlled Photobiosynthesis Laboratory at the Institute of Plant Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow. He obtained both his B.S. and M.S., in Physics from the Department of Physics, Azerbaijan State University, Baku. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics (Biophysics), from the Institute of Biophysics, USSR. He has been a guest editor of more than 30 special issues in international peer-reviewed journals. At present, he is associate editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, section editor of the BBA Bioenergetics, and associate editor of Photosynthesis Research, Functional Plant Biology, Photosynthetica, Heliyon, Cells.