Michael A Bukshtab received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in “Optical Design and Spectroscopy” and in “Physical Optics” from The State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics & Optics and from The Vavilov’ State Optical Institute, having the post-doctoral tenure analysing high-purity silica glasses and specialty fibres in The Institute of Silicate Chemistry, Academy of Sciences  all in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia. Michael’s first monograph “The Low Loss Measurement Techniques”, 165 pages, was published in 1988 by Energoatomizdat, Moscow-Leningrad. During the Perestroika movement Michael was elected by employees the Board Chairman for the Leningrad Institute of Telecommunications, where he served from 1989 until has immigrating to the United States in 1991. In the US Michael worked on design, development, fabrication of optical systems and components for various companies, such as Sandoz, Corning, Pirelli, Kodak, CIENA, Lucent, GE Advanced Materials, ASML, and MBOptical, while designing complex systems and components and investigating various optical properties, while studying colour, polarization-dependent, backreflection, backscattering and other phenomena, developing wavelength-switching or cross-connect systems and OADM networks, working on optical routers and backplanes, investigating lithography and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) systems, researching augment reality displays, interferometric and diffraction-based positioning sensors, EDFA fibre-laser lidars, improving Brillouin-scattering confocal microscopy and interferometry for studying eye corneal elasticity, enhancing optical diagnostics tools for reservoir Raman spectroscopy. Since January 2018 Michael is the Senior Research Fellow at the Optoelectronics Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, working on enhancing optical metrology for photonic-crystal fibres.