Alexander Samokhvalov, an assistant professor of Chemistry at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, is a member of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Electro-Photonics with 2D Materials. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemistry in 1992 from the Novosibirsk State University in Russia. As a student, he authored in 1990 an invention (Patent of the USSR, registered at the Novosibirsk State University, Russia, #1058-2/90). Throughout 1992-1997 he worked as research scientist at The Eastern Mining and Metallurgical Research Institute for Non-Ferrous Metals (VNIITSVETMET) in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan. At this institution, he has authored four patents on industrial chemicals, multiple research reports and a paper in a professional journal. In 1996-1997 he worked as Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the East Kazakhstan State University in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan. In 1997-2002, he studied toward a Ph.D. degree at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel where he co-authored five research papers and presented at multiple conferences. In 2003-2004 he worked as a postdoc in the Department of Chemistry of Duke University, and in 2005-2006 in the Department of Chemical Engineering of University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). His research interests were established in the development of new methods of high-resolution spectroscopic and micro-spectroscopic analysis. In 2007-2010, he worked as a postdoc in the Department of Chemical Engineering of Auburn University in Alabama, USA. His research interests were extended to the nanostructured composite sorbents for the next generation of ultraclean fuels. Dr. Samokhvalov received his first independent faculty position in Chemistry Department of Rutgers University in New Jersey where he worked in 2010-2017. He authored and co-authored 20 papers in peer-reviewed journals and served as research mentor of multiple graduate and undergraduate students. He authored one book, co-authored another book, and authored two book chapters. Starting 2017, he works as Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department of Morgan State University. He has authored several articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the multiple review articles on advanced methods of spectroscopic analysis. His research group presented at many national and international research conferences. His group has pioneered and continues to develop the new ultra-high resolution method of solid-state synchronous luminescence spectroscopy. In 2021 Dr. Samokhvalov received a U.S. patent based on this advanced research methodology. His research interests are in the development of new high-resolution and in-situ methods of spectroscopic analysis of nanomaterials. He has received multiple major research and instrumentation grants from the Army Research Laboratory, and from the National Institutes of Health.