Prof. Volodymyr Kushch is Leading Research Scientist, Institute for Superhard Materials of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is the author of Micromechanics of Composites as well as dozens of peer-reviewed papers. He has over thirty years of research and industry experience in micromechanics of composites and computational mechanics, with research interests that include advanced analytical and numerical methods in mechanics of heterogeneous solids, suspensions and bubbly liquids, computational materials science, mathematical physics, and more.