Prof. Alexei V. Finkelstein

Alexei V. Finkelstein, born 06/16/1947. Graduated from Moscow Phys.-Tech. (1970). Ph.D. in Biophysics (Phys.-Tech., 1976); D.Sc. in Biophysics (Moscow Lomonosov University, 1991). Full Professor (since 1997). Since 1970: Member of the Laboratory of Protein Physics (then headed by Prof. O.B. Ptitsyn) at the Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences. Graduate student (1971-74), junior (1974), senior (1980), leading 1996), and chief (1999 г.) researcher at the same laboratory. Has been the Head of this laboratory since 1999, and Head of the department since 2017. Professor of the Moscow Lomonosov University since 1998. Professor of the Pushchino State University (1993-98). Associate Professor of the Moscow Phys.-Tech. (1991-95). Soros Professor (2001). Author of ~300 papers and the books "Protein Physics"—published in Russian (5 editions), English (2 editions), and Chinese (2 editions)—and "Physics of Protein Molecules" (in Russian). Citation index by Google Scholar: >10000; Hirsch index: 46. Areas of expertise: protein physics; theory of protein structures, folding, and design; thermodynamics and kinetics of transitions in proteins and amyloids; molecular physics; phase transitions; molecular force fields; molecular biology; bioinformatics. Awards from FIRCA, INTAS, CASP, HHMI (3 times), Moscow Grant, NWO, etc. Awarded the State Prize of Russia in Science and Technology (1999). Elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences (2008).