Konstantin E. Dorfman was born in Russia. He completed his B.S. degree in Physics from Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia, in 2006. In 2009 he completed his Ph.D. degree at Texas A&M University. From 2009 to 2015 he worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University, Texas A&M University, University of California, Irvine, and a staff scientist in Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Dr. Dorfman is currently a Zijiang Endowed young professor of physics at State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai. His scientific interests include atomic, molecular, optical, and chemical physics, quantum and nonlinear optics and photonics, X-ray optics, ultrafast phenomena, and quantum thermodynamics. Dr. Dorfman published over 50 research articles in scientific journals including high impact publications in Review of Modern Physics, PNAS, PRL, Nature Communications, JACS, Chemical Reviews, Accounts of Chemical Research.