Ksenia Valerievna Lapshina graduated from the Department of General Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, Saint-Petersburg State University in 2006. She received her Ph.D. in Physiology in 2011. She is currently working as a senior researcher at the Laboratory of Comparative Thermophysiology, Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her expertise is in the fields of animal models of Parkinson's disease, neurodegeneration, aquaporins, molecular chaperones, thermoregulation, sleep mechanisms, animal polysomnography and sleep stage analysis.