Dr. Kalmykov is physicist in the National Security Sector of Leidos Corporation. He provides theoretical and computational support to various programs of DTRA and of Directed Energy Directorate of Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1995), and Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences (2001). In 2001-06, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France), Max-Planck Institut fuer Quantenoptik (Garching, Germany), Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, IL), and Institute for Fusion Science (IFS) at The University of Texas at Austin. In 2006-10 he was employed by IFS as a Research Associate. Since 2010, he had been with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, as Associate Research Professor (2010-16) and Adjunct Faculty (2017 - present). Research interests of Dr. Kalmykov lay in the area of plasma theory, high-field laser science, advanced accelerator concepts, relativistic nonlinear optics, and plasma-based radiation sources. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Optica (formerly OSA), and SPIE; and an Outstanding Referee for journals of the American Physical Society (2011). He have authored and co-authored 51 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and regularly consults experimental groups in plasma simulation and theory. He has extensive experience in teaching advanced graduate classes on physics of laser-plasma interactions.