Anastasiia Nesterenko

Anastasiia Nesterenko is a science communicator and academic writer with an MSc in Genetics and Cytology from Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine (2005), and a professional qualification as a Teacher of Biology and Chemistry. Her graduate thesis focused on parthenogenesis in insects, a subject that underpins her detailed writing on insect biology and reproductive science for BioExplorer.

She spent 16 years as a research assistant at the Mechnikov Institute for Microbiology and Immunology in Kharkiv, Ukraine, one of the country's foremost biomedical research institutions, where she worked in the Laboratory of Microbiology and Immunology and later in the Department of Medical Communications and Patent Research. This research background gives her writing a rigour and precision that goes well beyond general science journalism.

Anastasiia has devoted her career to communicating advances in biology and medicine, first in an academic research setting and then for wider audiences. She brings expertise in genetics, immunology, evolutionary biology, and oncology to her writing, making complex biological concepts accessible without sacrificing scientific accuracy.