Professor Kirill Alexandrov
Faculty of Science,
School of Biology & Environmental Science
Biography
Professor Kirill Alexandrov obtained his Masters degree in Invertebrate Zoology at the Leningrad State University, Russia in 1989 and completed his Ph.D in Cell Biology at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany in 1995. He went on to postgraduate work at the Department of Physical Biochemistry at the Max-Planck Institute in Dortmund, Germany, and remained with the Institute for 13 years, becoming a group leader in 1999. He joined the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Biotechnology of the University of Queensland, Australia in 2008 as an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He co-founded the German biotechnology company JenaBioscience GmbH in 1998 and the UK/Australian Synthetic Biology company Molecular Warehouse Ltd in 2015. In 2018 he joined Queensland University of Technology as a CSIRO-QUT Inaugural Professor of Synthetic Biology. His group is interested in protein engineering of artificial sensing and signal transduction, two-way connectivity between biology and electronics as well as diagnostics. Link to PublicationsPersonal details
Positions
- Professor of Synthetic Biology (Fellowship)
Faculty of Science,
School of Biology & Environmental Science
Research field
Medical biotechnology, Biochemistry and cell biology, Industrial biotechnology
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy
Publications
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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/kirill.alexandrov
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Designing highly sensitive biosensor platform targeting traditional and novel biomarkers in iron deficient patients
MPhil, Principal Supervisor - Developing Hybrid Protein-Aptamer Biosensors of Small Molecules and Disease Biomarkers
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Elena Eremeeva - Development of protein biosensors of ions and small molecules
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Zhenling Cui - Expanding the Utility of a Leishmania tarentolae Cell-Free System: From Ambient-Temperature Stability to Rapid Metabolic Prototyping
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Adjunct Professor Robert Speight, Dr Wayne Johnston, Dr James Behrendorff - Isoprenoid Biosensors for Metabolic Pathway Profiling
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Zhenling Cui, Dr Jordi Perez Gil - Organic Transistor Aptamer Sensors for Assessing Smoke-Taint in Wine Grapes
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Soniya Yambem, Dr Joshua Arthur - Understanding and Biotechnologically Exploiting AI-Designed Double-Stranded DNA-Binding Proteins
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Zhong Guo - Using computational and experimental approaches for engineering artificial protein biosensor receptors
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Zhenling Cui
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Developing Artificial Protein Biosensors as Clinical Decision Support Systems for Heart Failure Detection (2026)
- Engineering and Analysis of Protein Biosensor Components (2025)
- Engineering Fast-Responding Protein Biosensors (2024)
- Understanding enzyme-mediated keratin hydrolysis and evaluation of new keratin binding peptides (2023)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.