Prof. Dr. Sergey V. Zykov holds a Ph.D. (2000) and Dr. Habil. (2017) in Computer Science. He has a 25-year experience in IT, including Vice-CIO of the ITERA International Oil and Gas Group. He also has 25-year experience in teaching computer science and software engineering and holds instructor certificates from Carnegie Mellon University and London School of Economics. Currently, he is Full Professor at the HSE University, National Nuclear Research University MEPhI, Russian Technical University MIREA, and Innopolis University (Russia). He served as Visiting Researcher at the Carnegie Mellon University (USA), and the First Moscow State Medical University (Russia). He authored over 200 papers and over 20 books, including 7 monographs by Springer, a few of which present the emerging discipline of IT Crisisology.