📚 Biography: Prof. Elina A. Genina

• 🎓 Education:

  • Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia
    • MS in Radiophysics and Electronics, 1993
    • PhD in Biophysics, 2002
    • Dr.Sc. in Biophysics, 2017

• 🏢 Professional Experience:

  • Full Professor, Chair of Optics and Biophotonics, Saratov State University (SSU), since 2018
  • Senior Researcher, Interdisciplinary Laboratory on Biophotonics, Tomsk State University, 2014–2018
  • Associate Professor, Chair of Optics and Biophotonics, SSU, 2003–2018
  • Assistant Professor, Chair of Optics, SSU, 2002–2003
  • Engineer, Chair of Optics, SSU, 2000–2002
  • PhD Student, Chair of Optics, SSU, 1996–2001
  • Engineer, Institute of Chemistry, SSU, 1993–1997

• 🌟 Honors and Awards:

  • George Soros PhD student awards, 1999 and 2000
  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (CRDF), 2003
  • Welcome Trust Award, 2005
  • Nano Research Top Papers Award, 2016

• 📚 Teaching Experience:

  • Courses on Fundamentals of Photobiology, Photomedicine, Tissue Optics, Measurement Methods in Biology and Medicine, and more

• 📝 Research Interests:

  • Biological and medical physics, biophotonics, biomedical optics, nanobiophotonics, OCT, optical and laser measurements, photodynamic/photothermal therapy

• 📃 Selected Papers:

  • Published numerous papers and reviews in peer-reviewed journals such as J. Biophotonics, J. Biomedical Optics, and others

• 🎙️ Professional Activities:

  • Member of editorial boards and reviewer for various scientific journals
  • Member of international conference committees including Saratov Fall Meeting

• 📘 Book Editor:

  • Edited “Handbook of tissue optical clearing: new prospects in optical imaging,” CRC Press, 2022

• 🏅 Special Issues:

  • Guest editor and contributor to special issues in journals and proceedings on biophotonics technologies

Photothermal and photodynamic therapy of tumors with plasmonic nanoparticles: challenges and prospects

Authors: Alla B Bucharskaya, Nikolai G Khlebtsov, Boris N Khlebtsov, Galina N Maslyakova, Nikita A Navolokin, Vadim D Genin, Elina A Genina, Valery V Tuchin

Journal: Materials

Year: 2022

 

Rapid ultrasound optical clearing of human light and dark skin

• Authors: Elina A Genina, Yury I Surkov, Isabella A Serebryakova, Alexey N Bashkatov, Valery V Tuchin, Vladimir P Zharov
• Journal: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
• Year: 2020

 

Optical clearing of tissues: issues of antimicrobial phototherapy and drug delivery

• Authors: Valery V Tuchin, Elina A Genina, Elena S Tuchina, Anna V Svetlakova, Yulia I Svenskaya
• Journal: Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews
• Year: 2021

 

Optimized skin optical clearing for optical coherence tomography monitoring of encapsulated drug delivery through the hair follicles

• Authors: Sergey M Zaytsev, Yulia I Svenskaya, Ekaterina V Lengert, Georgy S Terentyuk, Alexey N Bashkatov, Valery V Tuchin, Elina A Genina
• Journal: Journal of Biophotonics
• Year: 2020

 

Glycerol effects on optical, weight and geometrical properties of skin tissue

• Authors: Vadim D Genin, Elina A Genina, Valery V Tuchin, Alexey N Bashkatov
• Journal: Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences
• Year: 2021