Igor Kornienko (ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0274-3302): PhD in Biochemistry (1997), thesis: "Status of free-radical lipid oxidation processes for experimental salmonella infection", Doctor of Science in clinical laboratory diagnostics (2005), thesis: "Indirect molecular-genetic identification of the person at the mass admission of unidentified bodies". Chief Researcher at the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Rostov-on-Don, Russia), Head of Biological Object Identification Laboratory of the Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia). Research interests: DNA identification, ancient DNA, paleogenetics, DNA extraction, RNA extraction, genotyping, biobanking.