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Vladimir N. Uversky, PhD, DSc, FRSB, FRSC, is a full Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA. Dr. Uversky works on various aspects of protein intrinsic disorder phenomenon and on analysis of protein folding and misfolding. He has authored over 1150 scientific publications. According to the Thomson Reuters' Web of Science, his work was cited over 66,000 times, and he has an h-index of 126. Dr. Uversky has been included in the prestigious Clarivate List of Highly Cited Researchers(TM) every year from 2014 to 2020. In 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Over the years, he has delivered more than 240 invited talks at various national and international conferences and invited seminars in various universities and research institutions around the globe. Dr. Uversky has collaborated with more than 12,500 colleagues from more than 2,750 research organizations in 89 countries/territories. He is an editor of a number of scientific journals and has edited several books and book series on protein structure, function, folding, and misfolding. He obtained his PhD in Biophysics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and DSc in Biophysics from the Institute of Experimental and Theoretical Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences.