2023 – May 2024 Assistant professor, department of Molecular Medicine Nazarbayev university, Astana, Kazakhstan 2019 – 2022 Senior Research Scientist, Life Science Center Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia Generated several KO lines related to breast cancer research. 2021 – January-November Research Engineer Ecole Polytechnique, Laboratory BIOC, Palaiseau, France Generated several KO lines and single amino acid substitutions, related to cell motility. 2015 – 2019 Research Fellow, Center for Genome Engineering Institute of Basic Science, Republic of Korea Developed Cpf1 (CRISPR type V) proteins with new PAM specificities 2000 – 2014 Scientist I – III, Sangamo BioSciences, Richmond, CA, USA Developed a new method of genome mutation detection and quantitation. 1997 – 2000 Visiting Scientist, Laboratory of Molecular Embryology, NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA Elucidated mechanisms of nucleosome mobilization by ATP-dependent Mi-2 complex. 1995 – 1997 Visiting Scientist, Human Genome Group, CMBB, ANL, Argonne, IL, USA Developed a new approach for oligonucleotide chip manufacturing 1991 – 1995 Research Fellow, Biochemical Regulatory Mechanisms Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK Discovered involvement of Jak kinases in interferon signaling 1990 – 1991 Research Assistant, Laboratory of Chromosome Structure Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow Demonstrated histone tails involvement in maintaining chromatin structure during transcription.