Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Distinguished Professor of mathematics at the University of California, Irvine, and Hubbard Chair Professor at Georgia Tech, was born in Kharkiv in a family of mathematicians. She received her Ph.D. in Moscow in 1991 under the supervision of Yakov Sinai. She is famous for her contributions to the spectral theory of almost-periodic Schrödinger operators and related questions in dynamical systems, including a solution (with Avila) of the Ten Martini problem. Prof. Jitomirskaya was an invited speaker at ICM 2002 and a plenary speaker at ICM 2022. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018) and the National Academy of Sciences (2022). She was awarded the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics (2005), Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2020), and the Ladyzhenskaya Prize in Mathematical Physics (2022)