Luba Tchertanov, Research Director at CNRS-France, leader of the Bioinformatics, Molecular Dynamics and Modeling (BiMoDyM) team at the Centre Borelli (CNRS) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris-Saclay. She received her M.S. in Physics (State University of Kazan, URSS), Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (1988, URSS), and HDR in the Life Sciences (1998, Université Paris XI, Orsay, France). L. Tchertanov has multidisciplinary skills, with extensive experience in structural biology, molecular modelling, and numerical simulation of molecular dynamics. She is the author or co-author of more than 160 papers in peer-reviewed journals, a lecturer of numerous communications and invited seminaries, and organiser of Molecular Modelling workshops, Shrödinger-ENS Cachan (France), and international CECAM meetings. She has coordinated or contributed to different research projects; research topics focus on the exploration of protein structure–dynamics–function relations. In particular, she is working on proteins' activation mechanisms, resistance to inhibitor mechanisms, conformational dynamics and plasticity, and molecular recognition. She is most specifically interested in the description of allosteric regulation and intrinsic disorders at an atomistic level. An important part of her research is dedicated to the development of new methodologies and computing tools for the description of protein dynamics.