Rostislav V. Lapshin, Ph. D., a lead specialist of the Department of Quantum Technologies of the Kurchatov Institute. A researcher, microscopist, mathematician, developer, inventor. A native of the city of Belgorod. Graduate of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. Scientific interests: scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic-force microscopy, optical profilometry, IR-microscopy, nanometrology, nanotechnology, MEMS IR-detectors, analytic geometry of polygons, Peruvian polygonal masonry.