Alan V. Kaluev (Kalueff) graduated from Moscow State University in 1994 and received his PhD degree in Physiology from RUDN University in 2003 and PhD degree in Anatomy from Tampere University Medical School in 2005. He received his Doctor of Science (Higher Doctorate) degree in Physiology from St. Petersburg State University in 2021. Before joining Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in 2023, he was a visiting researcher at several UK universities, a postdoctoral fellow at NIH, Assistant Professor at Georgetown and Tulane Universities in USA, Chair Professor at Guangdong Ocean University, and Professor at Southwest University and St. Petersburg State University. His area of expertise is animal modeling of human brain disorders, translational neuroscience, and neuropsychopharmacology, utilizing both rodent and zebrafish assays. He has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications with over 28 000 citations, and has been consistently ranked among top 2% researchers globally, and was named a Highly Cited Researcher in China in 2025. He is a member of European Academy and holds the academic rank of Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Kaluev is the Director of Suzhou Municipal Key Laboratory of Neurobiology and Cell Signaling at XJTLU.

Our lab is looking for motivated, fast and smart individuals with strong molecular biology or AI background, deep interest in neuroscience research, to join the research group. Inetersted students can send their CV and academic transcripts to Prof. Kaluev direct

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioinformatics, XJTLU

Honorary appointment: University of Liverpool, UK

Address: Office SB 344 (Laboratory room: SA 254) School of Science XJTLU, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu Province, China

E-mail: Alan.Kaluev@xjtlu.edu.cn Office Tel: 89165902

His area of expertise is animal modeling of human brain disorders, translational neuroscience, and neuropsychopharmacology, utilizing both rodent and zebrafish assays. The lab utilizes the zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a primary model organism. The lab is also working on several AI-related projects, as well as neurogenomic profiling of brain responses to acute and chronic stressors, and to various CNS drugs.

2023-present Full Professor, School of Science, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
2015-2023 Full Professor and Lab Head, of Biological psychiatry, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
2014-2023 Senior Researcher, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2020-2022 Chief Scientist, School of Psychology and Medicine, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
2018-2023 Leading Researcher, Russian Scientific Center of Radiology and Surgical Technologies, St. Petersburg, Russia
2020-2023 Group Leader, Sirius University of Science and Technology, Sochi, Russia
2018-2023 Group Leader, Almazov National Medical Research Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
2020-2023 Chief Scientist, School of Biology, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia
2018-2023 Leading Researcher, Institute of Neuroscience and Translational Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
2017-2021 Professor of Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
2012-2020 Research Director, ZENEREI LLC, Slidell, LA, USA
2013-2017 Distinguished Chair Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Guangdong Ocean University, China
2009-2012 Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, LA, USA
2011-2012 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, USA
2008-2009 Assistant Professor of Physiology, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington DC, USA
2005-2008 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA
2003-2005 Post-doctoral Researcher, Medical School, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
1996-2003 Director of Research, Centre for Physiology and Biochemical Research, Kiev, Ukraine
1996 Visiting Academic Scientist, University of Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham, UK
1995 Academic Researcher, Bristol University Medical School, Bristol, UK

BIO208-2425-S2-Cell Signalling

BIO303-2425-S1/S2-Final Year Project

BIO304-2425-S2-Biotechnology and Society

BIO403-2425-S1-Research Methods in Post-Genomic Biology

XJTLU SURF Program

XJTLU Summer Research Volunteer Project

2022 - Medal for the promotion of science, Ministry of Science, Russia

2022 - Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences

2021 - Member, European Academy

2023, 2024 - Most Cited Neuroscientist in Russia (www.research.com)

2023-2025 - Top 2% highly cited global researcher (Stanford University)

2025 - #10 Best researcher (top 0.015%) in the field of Zebrafish

2025 - Highly Cited Chinese Researcher (Elsevier)