Dr. Yaroslava G. Yingling, Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University, USA. She earned her University Diploma in Computer Science and Engineering from St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia in 1996, and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Penn State University in 2002. Her research primarily focuses on the development and application of advanced multiscale molecular modeling methods and data-science approaches for investigating the properties and processes in soft, colloidal, biomimetic, and biological materials.