Mikhail Vasilevskiy was graduated from N. I. Lobachevskii University in Gorkii, USSR, in 1981 and received his PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the same University in 1985. He worked as a professor of Physics in the same University and as a researcher at the Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences. He also was a post-doctorate researcher in Essex University, UK, and visiting professor in the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. Since 1999 Mikhail Vasilevskiy is a professor of Physics at the School of Science of Minho University (UM) and a researcher at the UM Centre of Physics where he has been a coordinator of the Group of Physics of Nanocrystalline Materials and currently serves as Director of the Physics Centte. Mikhail Vasilevskiy's scientific interests are focused on the Physics of Semiconductor Nanostructures, in particular, on the theory and modelling of the electronic and optical properties of quantum dots and other semiconductor-based and metal-based nanostructures, including graphene. He authored and co-authored one book and more than 100 papers published in peer-review journals.