CV
Positions
United States, Seattle
2021 - Present
Senior Scientist
Genomic analysis of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases (Ben Logsdon)
Allen Institute for Brain Science
United States, Seattle
2017 - 2021
Scientist I
Genomic analysis of Alzheimer's disease (Jeremy Miller)
Models of human epilepsy (Costas Anastassiou)
Analysis of cortical cell types (Ed Lein)
University of Washington, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
United States, Seattle
2016 – 2017
Post-doctoral fellow
Hydra vulgaris neural network models (Adrienne Fairhall)
Ecole Normale Superieure, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience
France, Paris
2012 – 2015
PhD student
Modeling of single cell and network phenomena of the nervous system:
Ion dynamics during epileptic oscillations and inverse stochastic resonance
(Boris Gutkin and Anton Chizhov)
Computational Physics Laboratory at Ioffe Institute
Saint Petersburg, Russia
2010 – 2012
2007 – 2009
Research Assistant
Adaptation, synchronization and wave solutions in the firing-rate model of population of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons (Anton Chizhov)
Awards
American Epilepsy Society, Travel grant, 2016
Modelling of Neural Activity Workshop, Travel grant, 2016
The Swartz Foundation, Post-doctorate fellowship, 2015
Foundation of Medical Research, 4th year PhD fellowship, 2014
Labex, Doctorate Fellowship, 2011
Neuroinformatics conference, Presentation award, 2011
Liliane Bettencourt Foundation, Master Felllowship, 2009
Hippocampus and memory conference, Poster award, 2009
Public
outreach
Matching form and function of brain cell types, 2023
An AI model of Epilepsy, Cedars Sinai, 2022
Scientists create first realistic computer model of more than 9,000 individual brain cells, Brain Tomorrow, 2022
Neurotea podcast, part 1, part2, 2021
Engineering mind podcast, 2020
Science communication, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2013
Novatech plus journal, 2019
Disfunction of the proteins in Epilepsy, Foundation of Medical Research, 2017
Epilepsy from neuroscience point of view, XX2 century, 2017
Scientific career in Russia, Europe and United States, Rabotar.ru, 2017
About squids, brain modelling and use of neuroscience, Theory & Practice, 2016
Radio discussion about psychedelic research, Moon Ant radio, 2016
Expatriates in Paris, they want to stay, Le Monde, 2015
Public neuroscience lecture, part 1, part 2, Granum Sails, 2015
Education
Universities
École Normale Supérieure
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience
2012 - 2015
PhD in Computational Neuroscience
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Department of Physics and Mechanics
2009 - 2011
Master of Physics
Department of Medicine
2009 - 2010, lab rotations
Master of Research
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Department of Physics and Mechanics
2005 - 2009
Bachelor of Physics
Additional training
2020, Coursera, John Hopkins University
2019, Coursera, deeplearning.ai
2019, Coursera, Standford
2018, University of Washington
2016, Allen Institute
Machine learning: case study approach
2016, Coursera
Advanced course in computational neuroscience
2013, Beldlewo, Poland
White nights of computational neuroscience
2012, St Petersburg, Russia
Methods for neurophysics: dynamical system theory, statistical physics, wavelet analysis
2011, St Petersburg, Russia
Cellular mechanisms of information transfer: neuronal and synaptic plasticity
2011 St Petersburg, Russia
Electrophysiological applications in neurophysiology
2010, Helsinki, Finland
Hippocampus and memory: norm and pathology
2009, Pushchino, Russia
Models in neuroscience: turning experiments into the knowledge
2008, Zelenogorsk, Russia
Skills
Scientific skills
computational problem formulation, machine learning models, data mining, large-scale supercomputer simulations, software development
Computational neuroscience
mathematical modeling, phase plane analysis, spiking neural networks, mean field approximation
Conducting research
writing grant proposals, preparing posters and presentations, manuscript preparation, correspondence with the team members
Teaching
preparation of materials, giving lectures, checking home works, conducting examination, student supervision
Administration
organization of video conferences, lab meetings, conference OCNS 2013