Dr. Pavel A. Nazarov is a Senior Research Scientist at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and an Assistant Professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). He received his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees at Moscow State University. He received training as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA), and worked as a patent examiner at the Russian Patent Office. In 2014 he joined as a Senior Research Scientist at the Belozersky Institute of Moscow State University. He is the PI of several grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and the Russian Science Foundation. He is a member of the Russian Biochemical Society, the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh, the American Society for Microbiology, the Russian Microbiological Society, and the Russian Geographical Society. From 2017 to 2019 he was elected as an American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Young Ambassador for Russia, and he is currently the ASM Country Ambassador for Russia. He is a guest editor for national and international journals such as Bulletin of Russian State Medical University, Pharmaceuticals, Antibiotics, and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. He peer-reviewed manuscripts in such journals as the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Viruses, PLoS One, and Clinical Microbiology Reviews. He is a regularly invited speaker nationally and internationally.