Grigory Tkachov is a professor of theoretical physics at Augsburg University, Germany. He did his PhD at the Lifshitz Theoretical Physics Department of Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, and completed a habilitation in theoretical physics at Wuerzburg University, Germany. He has more than two decades of research experience at European academic institutions, including Lancaster University, Regensburg University, and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems. Dr. Tkachov's research interests include topological phases of matter, non-equilibrium quantum many-body theory, superconductivity, and electromagnetism of solids.