Elena Zharkikh

1. Education and degrees awarded:

• MSc in Biomedical Engineering, Orel State University, Orel, Russia (2019),
• BSc in Biomedical Engineering, Orel State University, Orel, Russia (2017),

2. Other education and training, qualifications and skills:

• Fundamentals of cell research in vitro and ex vivo (Orel State University, Orel, 2022).
• Confocal laser scanning microscopy in the practice of preclinical studies of drugs (Orel State University, Orel, 2021).
• The use of optical non-invasive diagnostic methods in medicine, Orel State University, Orel, Russia (2019).
• The basics of working in the LATEX package, Orel State University, Orel, Russia (2019).
• Project management in an educational institution, Orel State University, Orel, Russia (2017).
• Technological Entrepreneurship, Orel State University, Orel, Russia (2017).

3. Current position:

• 2017-present, Researcher, Orel State University, Research and Development Center of Biomedical Photonics, Orel, Russia.
• 2019-present, Junior researcher, Orel State University, Cell Physiology and Pathology Laboratory, Orel, Russia.

4. Previous work experience:

• 2018-2019, Visiting Researcher, Optoelectronics and Measurement Techniques Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

5. Teaching experience:

• 2019-present: Teaching practical classes (Orel State University, Orel, Russia): “Physical principles of biomedical photonics”.

6. Top-5 publications:

• E. Zharkikh, V. Dremin, E. Zherebtsov, et al., Biophotonics methods for functional monitoring of complications of diabetes mellitus, J. Biophotonics, e202000203 (2020).

• E. Zharkikh, Yu. Loktionova, A. Fedorovich, et al., Assessment of Blood Microcirculation Changes after COVID-19 Using Wearable Laser Doppler Flowmetry,  Diagnostics, 13(5), 920 (2023).

• V. Dremin, E. Zherebtsov, V. Sidorov, et al., Multimodal optical measurement for study of lower limb tissue viability in patients with diabetes mellitus, J. Biomed. Opt. 22(8), 1–10 (2017).

• I. Mizeva, E. Zharkikh, V. Dremin, et al., Spectral analysis of the blood flow in the foot microvascular bed during thermal testing in patients with diabetes mellitus, Microvascular Research, 120, 13-20 (2018).

• E. Zharkikh, Yu. Loktionova, V. Sidorov, et al., Control of Blood Microcirculation Parameters in Therapy with Alpha-Lipoic Acid in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus, Human Physiology, 48(4), 456-464 (2022).