Graduated from the Biological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1994, graduate of the Department of Embryology. He studied full-time at the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2001, he defended his thesis on the role of genomic imprinting in the development of parthenogenetic mouse embryos. Candidate of Biological Sciences, specialty "Genetics".
He has been working with mammalian embryos and gametes, as well as other vertebrates, for more than 25 years. He has been working as a clinical embryologist since 2003.