Nadezhda Potapova, Elina Stoyanova, Alina Minasyan. Cells: What All Living Things Are Made Of

Bioinformatician, evolutionary biologist, lecturer, and since 2016 author of popular science articles on various platforms (Biomolecule, Elements of Big Science, N+1).

She studies the evolution of all life on the planet using bioinformatics. Her primary interests include deleterious mutations, rare evolutionary events in genomes, and theoretical evolutionary genomics. She actively participates in the popularization of science: she gives lectures, writes popular science articles, and from 2018 to 2022, she managed the popular science book reviews section on the Biomolecula website.

Elina Stoyanova

Biologist, science journalist.
She worked in a research laboratory and a medical genetics company. She is the winner of the 2022-2023 "Bio/Mol/Text" popular science article competition in the "Neurobiology" category. She is a member of the editorial boards of "Sirius.Journal" and "Biomolecule," a science journalist for the Sirius University press service, and the author of popular science books.

She's passionate about literature. She runs the Telegram channel "Forest of Books / Elina Stoyanova," where she talks about what she's read, shares popular science materials, and talks a little about life.

A graduate of the Sergei Andriaka Academy of Watercolor and Fine Arts, she is a full-time illustrator at Moscow School No. 547. She has worked with the Moscow publishing house "Peshkom v istorii" (On Foot in History) and the magazines "Vverkh tormashkami" (Upside Down) and "Raduga" (Rainbow). She also collaborates with the international illustration agency "Art Lab."
"Cells" is the artist's first book.