Elijah Liflyand has recently retired from his position at the Department of Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, but not from mathematics. He also holds a position at the at the Regional Mathematical Center of Southern Federal University in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. His areas of expertise are in Fourier Analysis, Complex Analysis, and Approximation Theory, among others. With Birkhäuser/Springer, he has published two books: "Decay of the Fourier Transform" (with Alex Iosevich, 2014), and "Functions of Bounded Variation and Their Fourier Transforms" (in the Applied Numerical and Harmonic Analysis series, 2019).