A year later, under the scientific supervision of Professor E. N. Sokolov, defended his dissertation for the academic degree of Candidate of Psychological Sciences on the topic "Psychophysiological mechanisms storing visual images in working memory".

[1][2] From 2005 to 2008, he was a researcher at the Laboratory of Psychophysiology of Creativity at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

After the Institute of Cognitive Research, along with other structural divisions, joined the Kurchatov Complex of NBICS Technologies in 2010–2011, he held the position of deputy head of the laboratory of neurobiological influences, and in 2011-2012 he was a senior researcher at the laboratory of biocontrol.

[1] In 2023, he was forced to resign "of his own free will" from the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University due to the threat of recognition as a foreign agent, after which the general meeting of Wikimedia RU decided to terminate the project for the safety of all its participants.

[5][6] At the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University he gives lecture courses on "Physiology of sensory systems", "Physiology of higher nervous activity", "Psychophysiology" for 2-3 year students, as well as special courses "Memory Mechanisms" and "Tomographic Methods in Psychophysiology" for students and undergraduates specialty "psychophysiologists".