Milan Hrabovsky (M'00) received the M.Sc. degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree in plasma physics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, in 1967 and 1975, respectively. From 1967 to 1990, he was with the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Prague, where he was engaged in research on vacuum breakdown processes and physics of electric arcs in vacuum and gases as well as basic problems of current interruption and electromagnetic plasma launchers. In 1990. He joined the Institute of Plasma Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, where he is currently Head of the Department of Low Temperature Plasmas. His current research interests include physics of arc plasma torches, plasma chemistry, and fundamentals of thermal plasma processing. Dr. Hrabovsky is a Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, a member of the Board of Directors of International Plasma Chemistry Society and also of the Executive Committee of the European Society of High Temperature Material Processes, and a Fellow of the Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic.