Welcome to Alexey!
Alexey Nesterenko is our new Postdoctoral Fellow who has joined the Department to contribute in simulating lipid membranes and carbohydrates, and to do biomacromolecular force field validation, under supervision of Markus Miettinen. Most days, you will find him at CBU@Marineholmen. 
Alexey got his PhD in a field between computational chemistry and electrochemistry in 2014 at the Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, whereupon he held positions at various research institutes in Moscow and at the Moscow State University. At Frumkin, Alexey studied lipid membranes with experimental, theoretical and computational methods. His PhD was focused on investigating the structure of electrical double layer at the lipid–water interface, which was done by assembling results of MD simulation and experimental results of cation adsorption measurements. He demonstrated how to compute accurately an adsorption constant and binding site density from MD simulation. Further he continued working with this lab analyzing lipid monolayer molecular structure and polycation adsorption on anionic lipid membranes.
In 2014–2022, Alexey worked in Laboratory of Molecular Basis of Embryogenesis, where they studied and simulated pattern formation in early amphibian embryo using mathematical modeling with partial differential equations. He demonstrated there both experimentally and theoretically how difference in adsorption of growth factors onto heparin extracellular matrix could play role in pattern formation. Until very recently, he worked on advanced data analysis of mass-spectrometry data, including metabolomics and proteomics data in different experiments with rodent stroke and oxidative stress in eukaryotic cell lines.
