Dr. Anastasia Ryabova is a senior researcher in the Laser Biospectroscopy Laboratory at the Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Science (GPI RAS), Moscow, Russia. She completed her master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and earned her Ph.D. in Physics at GPI RAS. Since 2013, she has been an expert in the confocal microscopy reference center at the GPI RAS. The circle of her scientific interests are theranostics; biomedical spectroscopy; confocal microscopy; fluorescence lifetime-resolved microscopy; laser hyperthermia; photosensitizers; photodynamic therapy; and fluorescence diagnostics.