Vladimir A. Zolotarev graduated in 1973 from the School of Mathematics & Mechanics of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, where he is now a professor. He obtained his PhD in 1978 with a thesis on multidimensional triangular models of operator systems. His doctoral thesis of 1994 was on model representations of Lie algebras of linear operators. Continuing to work at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, he also joined the B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2010. His main research interests are in spectral operator theory, scattering problems and inverse problems.