Current positions: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, postgraduate student; Russian Federation Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, Russian Ministry of Health, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, researcher. Education background: Master of Physics. Lozhkov Alexey graduated from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in 2017. Lozhkov’s current research interests are biophysics, viruses, innate immune response and systems of interferons.