Dr. Alexander Lukashev is a highly experienced virologist who currently serves as the director of the Institute of Medical Parasitology, Tropical and Vector-Borne Diseases at Sechenov University. With over 20 years of experience in the field of virology, his special interests include RNA virus evolution, virus bioinformatics, and emerging diseases. Alexander Lukashev graduated from Sechenov University in 1999 as a general physician and went on to receive his PhD in 2002. In 2006, he was awarded a Habilitation in enterovirus evolution.