Irina was born in Moscow, Russia, and went to the Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University). In 2004, Irina defended their thesis for the degree of candidate of physical and mathematical Sciences. Irina worked at the Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University), the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and since 2018 at the Institute of Crystallography (FSRC "Crystallography and Photonics" RAS). Irina's fields of interest are X-ray imaging, tomography, topo-tomography, and X-ray optics. Irina has more than 30 scientific publications.