Dr. Alexander Lazutkin received his Master’s degree in the Faculty of Biology and Chemistry from the Moscow State Pedagogical University in 1999. He received his PhD in P.K.Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in 2008. He worked as a Senior Researcher at P.K.Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology (Moscow, 2012–2021) and Senior Postdoctoral Associate at Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY, 2016, 2019-2020). In 2021, he moved to the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology (Moscow) and works as a Senior Researcher till the present. His research interest is in developmental neurobiology and stem cell biology.  His research topics mainly include neural stem cells, adult neurogenesis, brain development and regeneration, brain plasticity, and 3D brain imaging.