Elena Ananievna Kuznetsova, PhD. Graduated from Gorky State University (Nizhny Novgorod, USSR). She has worked in radiobiology for over 40 years. She currently heads the Laboratory of Radiation Molecular Biology at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics RAS. Her laboratory is mainly focused on improving the comet assays, DNA repair, and the role of LET in the severity of radiation-induced genotoxic stress. She is an active member of a scientific group specialized in the research of radiobiological FLASH-effects caused by UHDR irradiation with accelerated protons.