Alexander Vladimirovich Semenov
Director of the Federal Budgetary Institution of Science “Federal Research Institute of Viral Infections ‘Virome’” of Rospotrebnadzor.
Academic degrees and affiliations
Doctor of Biological Sciences; Chair of the Academic Council of the Virome Institute of Rospotrebnadzor; member of the St Petersburg regional branch of the Russian Association of Allergists and Clinical Immunologists. Since September 2021, Professor at the Department of Experimental Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin.
Profession and specialisation
Virologist, immunologist and specialist in molecular methods for laboratory diagnostics.
Teaching
Teaches a course in special virology at the Department of Experimental Biology and Biotechnology of Ural Federal University. Supervises doctoral research undertaken by postgraduate students and degree candidates at the Pasteur Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology and the Virome Institute of Rospotrebnadzor.
Research
Author of more than 250 publications, including 130 papers indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection or Scopus, and five Russian patents. Led scientific expeditions in Vietnam, Serbia and Central Asia. Took part in the response to the Ebola virus disease epidemic in West Africa in 2014–2016 and in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic from its earliest days in China and Western Europe.
State decorations
Awarded the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, 2nd class (2015), and the Order of Pirogov (2020) for professional service.