● Lead multiple projects – one of them in close collaboration with University Medicine Göttingen● Preparing the manuscript about interactions of thalamic neuronal and cardiac activities● Advanced analysis of neuronal, ECG, and respiratory data to reveal mechanisms of heart-brain interactions● Contributed into data collection of neuronal, behavioral, ECG, and respiratory data in a monkey to acquire sufficient data to publish the results● Discovered predictive signal of perceptual visibility in the monkey visual system and reported these findings at PNB 2023● Actively supervised Ph.D. and internship students

● Managed a group of 4-5 people to set up and maintain a human eye-tracking setup (incl. synchronization with EEG and body signals recording)● Group submitted a manuscript on cognitive load in humans in a peer-reviewed journal● Designed and ran a pilot study in collaboration with a movie-industry partner● Public outreach: communicated the work of the group at a state TV channel

● Actively contributed to a collaborative project with Moscow State University with monkey behavioral and eye-tracking data collection and student supervision● Submitted a manuscript on long-term stable recordings in rabbit amygdala to a peer-reviewed journal● Performed successful AAV in vivo transfections in the rabbit amygdala while probing optogenetics in this species● Established an own collaboration to study neuronal mechanisms of complex behavior in lizards (expedition to Astrakhan district in 08-09/2018 results of which were published in a peer-reviewed journal)

● Submitted 2 manuscripts about stable recordings in the monkey M1 in a brain-computer interface project● Mastered the entire production cycle for stable chronic neuronal recordings, from microarray manufacturing to data analysis and interpretation● Presented study results at international conferences● Collected neuronal data in chicken during sleep for a collaborative project with Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution (Moscow) in an expedition to Utrish Biological Station (06/2016, Krasnodar district, Russia) for sleep studies in chicken and marine mammals

● Contributed to the ongoing projects on face perception mechanisms of the lab that were submitted to the international neuroscience conference, SfN (2014, 2021, 2023)● Accomplished data collection of neuronal responses in inferior temporal cortex to study mechanisms of social stimulus processing● Improved Matlab programming for advanced data analysis and visualization of neuronal data● Learned primate handling according to U.S. standards and regulations and sterile surgery techniques