Andriy Sibirny graduated from Lviv National University, Ukraine, defended PhD thesis in Kyiv and Dr.Sc. thesis in Leningrad (Petersburg) in 1986. He works in the Institute of Cell Biology, NAS of Ukraine, Lviv, being Director and Head of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology. Simultaneously, he works as full professor at Institute of Biotechnology, University of Rzeszow, Poland. He was the Chair of International Commission on Yeasts (2008-2012), is FEMS Director for education and public engagements (since 2017) and the member of European Academy of Microbiology (since 2017). A. Sibirny works in the fields of cell biology and biotechnology of non-conventional yeasts. He studies selective peroxisome and cytosolic enzyme autophagic degradation. In the field of yeast biotechnology, he studies high-temperature alcoholic fermentation of lignocellulosic sugars and biosynthesis of riboflavin, other flavins and lactic acid.