On 12/04/2024, entered by the Russian Ministry of Justice into the register of mass media and individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent.

Asya Kazantseva (full name Anastasia Andreyevna Kazantseva) is a science journalist and popularizer of science. Her very first book, Who Would Have Thought! How the Brain Makes Us Do Stupid Things, received the Enlightener Prize for popular science literature (2014).

As a child, Asya Kazantseva wanted to become a doctor and was interested in science. After school, she worked for a short time as an orderly in a neurosurgery department. She studied at the Faculty of Biology and Soil Science at St. Petersburg State University, graduating in 2008. By her own account, she was influenced by the concepts in the field of psychogenetics developed by Oleg Tikhodeev and of psychoendocrinology by Dmitry Zhukov and Ekaterina Vinogradova, whom she met while studying at the university.

In 2013, she conducted research under the MASA program at Ariel University in Israel. Her statements that university lecturer Pinchas Polonsky, using his authority as a lecturer, was promoting creationism and grossly distorting facts firmly established by science caused a wide resonance in the Israeli media. During her studies in Israel, Asya Kazantseva more than once shared her impressions with readers of the online magazine Metropol.

Her erudition, scientific competence, and unique gift for vividly and engagingly explaining complex things earned high praise from biologists and readers far removed from science. Starting with a blog on LiveJournal, Asya Kazantseva quickly became a sought-after author.

She worked on the program Progress on Channel Five, on the project Science 2.0 on Rossiya-2 television, on the website strf.ru, and for the magazine Zdorovye. She wrote for the newspaper Troitsky Variant — Nauka, the websites Slon.ru and Mtrpl.ru, and for the magazines Vokrug Sveta, Schrödinger's