Dr. Alexander Katsman was the senior researcher in the Laboratory of “Physics of the Metal Strength” in Polytechnic Institute, Togliatty, Russia, before joining the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 1991. He was a visiting scientist at Max-Plank-Institut fur Eisenforshung, Dusseldorf, Germany in 1994. He is a member of Minerals, Metals&Materials Society (TMS) and Materials Research Society (MRS). From 1998 A. Katsman is a Senior Researcher in the frame of the KAMEA program.