The annual International Scientific School-Conference of Young Scientists “Modern problems of physics and technology’ has become a traditional spring event, organized in MEPhI. In 2011, the School-Conference was conceived as a scientific and practical school for students, graduate students and young scientists, where leading scientists represented scientific and educational lectures on modern and advanced research areas in science and technology. The first Scientific School-Conference of Young Scientists was organized by the Faculty of MEPhI N.G. Basov Higher School of Physics, and was dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Faculty, attracted the attention of more than 100 participants from various regions of Russia and CIS countries.The VII International Scientific School-Conference of Young Scientists “Modern Problems of Physics and Technologies” was held at the MEPhI from 16 to 21 April, 2018. The conference was organized by the N.G. Basov Higher School of Physics and the Institute of Engineering Physics for Biomedicine MEPhI, as well as the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.The program of the School-conference provided 4 plenary sessions, 3 poster sessions (two sessions for students and young scientists and one session for schoolchildren) and 3 oral youth sessions, at which participants had the opportunity to listen to the lectures of the world’s leading scientists and make reports on the results of their own work on the main topics of the School-conference:“Laser physics, solid state physics, optics and plasma physics”“Engineering Physics for Biomedicine”“Nuclear physics and technology, particle physics, astrophysics and cosmophysics”“IT - technologies, intellectual systems, cybersecurity”“Electronics, automatics, spintronics, nanotechnology”.Lecturers of the school-conference are people with a worldwide reputation:Zvyagin Andrey (professor of Macquarie University, Australia); Kazakov Dmitry (Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR); Kulchin Yury (Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Automation and Control Processes of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences); Barbero Giovanni (Professor of the Department of Applied Sciences and Technologies of the Polytechnic University in Turin, Italy); Giovanni Ummarino (Professor of the Institute of Physics of Mechanical Engineering and Materials, Turin Polytechnic University, Italy); Anton Fojtik (Professor of the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) and others.AcknowledgmentsTo express deep gratitude to the lecturers for the reports presented at the VII International Scientific School-Conference of Young Scientists.To express gratitude to the organizers of the School-Conference for conducting the School-Conference at a high scientific level.To express gratitude to the sponsors: MEPhI, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute.