Born in March 25, 1952, Moscow, Russia.
In 1976 graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
1976-1980 an engineer at the Institute of radio engineering.
1980-1994 research fellow at the Moscow State University, faculty of biology.
Ph.D. 1993
Since 1995 research fellow at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems,
Russian Academy of Sciences (Kharkevich Institute), in the laboratory of sensory information processing.
D.Sc. 2001