Anna Vologzhanina graduated from Samara State University in 2003 and defended her Ph.D. at the same university in 2006. Since 2007, she has been working as a researcher at INEOS RAS in the Laboratory of X-ray diffraction studies. In 2014, she was awarded the L’Oreal-Unesco award for Women in Science (Russia). In 2023, she became an assistant professor of Inorganic Chemistry department of Samara State University. Since 2023, she has been working as an Editor for the Structural Chemistry journal. Her research interests include crystallography, solid-state chemistry, and reticular chemistry.