Alina Pushkarev

Dr. Alina Pushkarev holds a PhD in Marine microbiology from the Technion – the Israel Institute of Technology, where she found a new family of light reactive proteins and published it in Nature. Currently, she holds a postdoctoral position at the laboratory of Prof. Peter Hegemann at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where she researches the properties of the light-harvesting proteins in the eyes of Mantis Shrimp.