Nina Georgievna Stenina graduated from the Mathematical Class and Department of Physics of Novosibirsk State University; PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Doctor of Science in Geology and Mineralogy (Mining Institute, St Petersburg, 1989). Between 1975 and 1990 she worked on multiple occasions at the International Center for Electron Microscopy of the Institute of Solid State and Electron Microscopy AcSc of DDR (now - the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle/Saale, Germany), in order to study a real structure of natural minerals. In 1969–2006, the author worked at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics SB RAS. Now she is a professor at the Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering.