Sergei (Sergey) Ivanov was born on April 30, 1994, in Moscow. In 2011, he graduated from secondary school No. 849 in Moscow, specializing in a class with a humanitarian bias. Following secondary school, he enrolled at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in the Faculty of Problems of Physics and Energy. Sergei earned his BSc from MIPT in 2015 and subsequently completed his MSc in 2017. During his academic journey, he gained valuable research experience at the Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISAN) under the guidance of Prof. A.M. Kamchatnov and Prof. Y.V. Kartashov. From 2017 to 2021, Sergei Ivanov pursued his studies in the MIPT postgraduate course, successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis titled “Dispersive shock waves in nonlinear optics, Bose-Einstein condensates, and other systems” by the end of 2021 in ISAN. During the period from 2017 to 2021, he contributed significantly to the sector of nonlinear physics within the theoretical department at ISAN. Additionally, from 2019 to 2021, he worked as a junior researcher at MIPT, focusing on research areas such as the dynamics of dispersive shock waves in nonlinear media and nonlinear optical topological insulators. Since January 2022, Sergei Ivanov has been working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nonlinear Optical Phenomena group at The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO). Under the mentorship of Group Leader Prof. Lluis Torner, Sergei's focus lies in investigating nonlinear optical processes within waveguide arrays, with a specific emphasis on studying solitons and topological insulators. Sergei's scientific interests encompass a broad spectrum, including nonlinear physics, nonlinear optics, nonlinear waves, topological insulators, solitons, dispersive shock waves, and numerical simulations. He has demonstrated his scholarly prowess by authoring over 35 papers in peer-reviewed reputable scientific journals.