Felix P. Lesnov is Senior Research Fellow, Laboratory of Geodynamics and Magmatism, V. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He specializes in research on mafic-ultramafic magmatism of folded regions (geology, petrology, petrochemistry, mineralogy, geochemistry, metallogeny), and he has (co-)authored more than 290 papers and nine monographs.