Prof. Mezhlum Sumbatyan is a head of the Department of Computational and Theoretical Hydrodynamics, as well as a head of the Ultrasonic Laboratory, both in the Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. He is a member of the National Russian Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and a foreign member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.His scientific interests are related to ultrasonic methods in evaluation of acoustic metamaterials, to identification of defects in solids on the basis of inverse problems, to numerical algorithms in direct and inverse problems of diffraction theory, as well as to mathematical modeling of acoustic filters of a periodic internal structure.He has published more than 250 papers, 108 of them in the Scopus data base. He has processed as teams’ leader in more than10 Russian and international grants.