Dr. Victor Novikov is a head of Laboratory of Pulsed Power Systems for Geophysics of the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow, Russia, Leading Researcher of Fedorov Institute of Applied Geophysics, Senior Researcher of Sadovsky Institute of Geosphere Dynamics of RAS and a head of experimental group at the Research Station of RAS located at the Northern Tien Shan (Kyrgyzstan). His research interests are R&D of pulsed power systems and their application for geology and geophysics, seismicity triggered by high-power electric pulses, development of physical backgrounds of earthquake control technology and earthquake short-term prediction based on electromagnetic earthquake triggering phenomena and space weather parameters.He served as a keynote and invited speaker at the national and international conferences, symposia, and workshops. He is a member of many international geophysical organizations (AGU, EGU, SSA, JpGU). Author and co-author of over 95 publications in the areas of power engineering and geophysics.Participant of the completed Russian-Chinese cooperation project "Coupling of geomagnetic field variations and deformation processes in the Earth crust" and Principal Co-Investigator of thesuccessfully completed Russian-Chinese cooperation project "Space weather and earthquakes" (2021-2022) supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Natural Science Foundation of China. At present he is the Principal Investigator of the project "Computational and experimental studies of the physical mechanisms of electromagnetic triggering of earthquakes" (2024-2025) supported by Russian Science Foundation.