Alexey G. Aksenov is senior researcher at the Institute for Computer-Aided Design, Russian Academy of Sciences (ICAD RAS), Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute (Technical University) and holds a PhD in Astrophysics from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is author of more than 30 refereed publications in different topics in astrophysics and plasma physics, gravitational collapse, neutrino transport, inertial confinement fusion, numerical solution of kinetic Boltzmann equations, and hydrodynamic simulations.