Valeriy Buryachenko received his MS degree in Mathematics from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, USSR, his Ph.D. degree in Material Science from the Chemical Production Engineering Res. Institute in Moscow, USSR; and his D. Sc. degree in Mechanical Engng (Mechanics of Solids) from S.P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics (NAS of Ukraine, Kiev). He is the author of 160 papers in micromechanics and the books “Micromechanics of Heterogeneous Materials”, Springer, NY (2007) and “Local and Nonlocal Micromechanics of Heterogeneous Materials”, Springer, NY (2021). His main achievement is a development of a new (second) background of micromechanics of composites (the first background based on the effective field hypothesis was proposed by Poisson, Faraday, Mossotti, Clausius, Lorenz, and Maxwell, 1824-1880). It offers great opportunities for a fundamental jump in multi-scale and multi-physics modeling of a wide class of heterogeneous media with drastically improved accuracy of local field estimations.He is a President of a small consulting company Micromechanics & Composites LLC. Prior this, he works in the leading Research centers and universities of USA, Italy, Austria, and Germany. Prior this, he worked as a Senior Res. Scientist in the Research institutes and a Full Professor of Math in the Moscow Univ. of Chemical Engineering Industry, Russia