Konstantin L. Vodopyanov is an Endowed Chair and Professor of Optics and Physics at CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida. He is a Fellow of The Optical Society of America (OSA), the International Optical Engineering Society (SPIE), the American Physical Society (APS), and the UK Institute of Physics (IOP). K.L. Vodopyanov is a world expert in mid‐IR lasers, laser–matter interactions, nonlinear optics, and laser spectroscopy. He has pioneered several new laser sources, optical parametric devices, and methods for mid‐IR and THz wave generation, including generation of ultrabroadband frequency combs; he is the author of more than 400 technical publications on the subject and a co‐editor of the book Solid‐State Mid‐Infrared Laser Sources (Springer, 2003). His research interests include the use of nonlinear effects for mid‐IR and THz generation, spectroscopic applications of frequency combs, nano‐IR spectroscopy, and biomedical applications of lasers.