Oleg Kornilov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1978. He received the Magister in Physics degree in 2001, and the Candidate degree in physical and mathematical Sciences in 2004, both from St. Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg, Russia., From 2001 to 2005, he was a Research Assistant in the group of Prof. J. Peter Toennies at the Max-Planck Institute for Flow Research, Germany. From 2006 to 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (in the groups of D. M. Neumark, S. R. Leone, and O. Gessner). He is currently a Staff Scientist at the Max-Born Institute, in Berlin, Germany. (Based on a document published on 7 April 2011).