Alexey A. Festa was born in Moscow, Russia in 1988. After graduating from from the Chemistry Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2010, he defended his PhD thesis under the guidance of Professor L. G. Voskressensky at RUDN University in 2013. He has worked as Assistant at the Organic Chemistry Department, RUDN University since 2013 and as Senior lecturer – since 2015. His area of scientific interests includes the chemistry of heterocyclic compounds, domino reactions in organic synthesis, photochemistry.