Dr. Vadym Kaydash is Senior Research Scientist and the Director of the Astronomical Institute of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. His research includes analysis and interpretation of Hubble Space Telescope imaging polarimetry of aerosols of the Martian atmosphere, photometric anomalies of the lunar surface using data of SMART-1 lunar mission, and mapping the photometric function variations and the polarization parameters for the nearside of the Moon by telescopic data.