Vladimir Mezentsev received the Ph.D. degree in 1991 from Institute of Automation, Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk Russia. His research interests include nonlinear waves, solitons and collapses, numerical modelling of nonlinear phenomena. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at Aston University, Birmingham, U.K., where he joined in 1999. His recent research is focused primarily on femtosecond micro fabrication in photonics and also on high performance numerical modeling of fiber communication systems and ultrashort laser pulse propagation.