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  1. Plasma gradient effect on direct laser acceleration

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, October 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  2. Enhanced energy gain through higher-order resonances during direct laser acceleration with superluminal phase velocity

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, August 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  3. Trends in relativistic laser–matter interaction: the promises of structured light

    Article • Optica, May 2025, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  4. High-resolution direct phase control in the spectral domain in ultrashort pulse lasers for pulse-shaping applications

    Article • Journal of Instrumentation, May 2025, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  5. STUDIES OF PARTICLE TRANSPORT IN HIGH-ENERGY-DENSITY PLASMA IN THE PRESENCE OF A MEGAGAUSS MAGNETIC FIELD

    Article • April 2025, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  6. Commissioning of the 1 PW experimental area at ELI-NP using a short focal parabolic mirror for proton acceleration

    Article • Matter and Radiation at Extremes, March 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  7. Design of a spectrometer for high energy photons

    Article • Review of Scientific Instruments, February 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Gaetan Fauvel, Dr Alexey Arefiev

  8. Collimated γ-ray emission enabled by efficient direct laser acceleration

    Article • New Journal of Physics, February 2025, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  9. Generation of 10 kT axial magnetic fields using multiple conventional laser beams: A sensitivity study for kJ PW-class laser facilities

    Article • Matter and Radiation at Extremes, November 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Jian Zheng, Dr Alexey Arefiev

  10. Efficient backward x-ray emission in a finite-length plasma irradiated by a laser pulse of picosecond duration

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, November 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Alexey Arefiev, Dr Alexey Arefiev

  11. Plasma-guided Compton source

    Article • Physical Review Applied, October 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  12. Quasi-monoenergetic ion acceleration and neutron generation from laser-driven transverse collisionless shocks

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, October 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  13. Advances in laser-plasma interactions using intense vortex laser beams

    Article • Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  14. A deep learning approach to fast analysis of collective Thomson scattering spectra

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, July 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  15. The influence of laser focusing conditions on the direct laser acceleration of electrons

    Article • New Journal of Physics, May 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  16. Direct Laser Acceleration in Underdense Plasmas with Multi-PW Lasers: A Path to High-Charge, GeV-Class Electron Bunches

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  17. Space-Time Structured Plasma Waves

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  18. Electron energy gain due to a laser frequency modulation experienced by electron during betatron motion

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, February 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Alexey Arefiev, Dr Alexey Arefiev

  19. Undepleted direct laser acceleration

    Article • Science Advances, January 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  20. Intense laser interaction with micro-bars

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  21. High field suppression of bremsstrahlung emission in high-intensity laser–plasma interactions

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, October 2023, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  22. Positron Generation and Acceleration in a Self-Organized Photon Collider Enabled by an Ultraintense Laser Pulse

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2023, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  23. Algorithm for computing the electron-positron yield from the linear Breit-Wheeler process in high-intensity laser-plasma interactions

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, May 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  24. Efficient Generation of Axial Magnetic Field by Multiple Laser Beams with Twisted Pointing Directions

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2023, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  25. Energy-chirp compensation of laser-driven ion beams enabled by structured targets

    Article • Physical Review Research, November 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  26. Underdense relativistically thermal plasma produced by magnetically assisted direct laser acceleration

    Article • Physical Review Research, October 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  27. Kinetic phenomena of helical plasma waves with orbital angular momentum

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, July 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  28. Electron acceleration from transparent targets irradiated by ultra-intense helical laser beams

    Article • Communications Physics, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  29. Progress in relativistic laser–plasma interaction with kilotesla-level applied magnetic fields

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  30. Achieving pair creation via linear and nonlinear Breit–Wheeler processes in dense plasmas irradiated by high-intensity laser pulses

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  31. Electron pulse train accelerated by a linearly polarized Laguerre–Gaussian laser beam

    Article • High Power Laser Science and Engineering, January 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  32. Electron acceleration using twisted laser wavefronts

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  33. Electron-positron pair production in the collision of real photon beams with wide energy distributions

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  34. A single-laser scheme for observation of linear Breit–Wheeler electron–positron pair creation

    Article • New Journal of Physics, November 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  35. Effects of simulation dimensionality on laser-driven electron acceleration and photon emission in hollow microchannel targets

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  36. Relativistically transparent magnetic filaments: scaling laws, initial results and prospects for strong-field QED studies

    Article • New Journal of Physics, September 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  37. Strong interplay between superluminosity and radiation friction during direct laser acceleration

    Article • New Journal of Physics, September 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  38. Dominance of γ-γ electron-positron pair creation in a plasma driven by high-intensity lasers

    Article • Communications Physics, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  39. Generation of Ultrarelativistic Monoenergetic Electron Bunches via a Synergistic Interaction of Longitudinal Electric and Magnetic Fields of a Twisted Laser

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  40. Particle integrator for particle-in-cell simulations of ultra-high intensity laser-plasma interactions

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, June 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  41. Emission of electromagnetic waves as a stopping mechanism for nonlinear collisionless ionization waves in a high- β regime

    Article • Physical Review E, February 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  42. Towards the optimisation of direct laser acceleration

    Article • New Journal of Physics, February 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  43. Sign reversal in magnetic field amplification by relativistic laser-driven microtube implosions

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, December 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Alexey Arefiev, Dr Alexey Arefiev

  44. Electron-positron pair creation in the electric fields generated by micro-bubble implosions

    Article • Physics Letters A, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  45. Generation of focusing ion beams by magnetized electron sheath acceleration

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  46. Strong surface magnetic field generation in relativistic short pulse laser–plasma interaction with an applied seed magnetic field

    Article • New Journal of Physics, November 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  47. Application of laser-driven capacitor-coil to target normal sheath acceleration

    Article • High Energy Density Physics, November 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  48. Comment on “Creation of Electron-Positron Pairs in Photon-Photon Collisions Driven by 10-PW Laser Pulses”

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  49. Direct laser acceleration of electrons assisted by strong laser-driven azimuthal plasma magnetic fields

    Article • Physical Review E, July 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  50. Magnetic field generation in a laser-irradiated thin collisionless plasma target by return current electrons carrying orbital angular momentum

    Article • New Journal of Physics, July 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  51. Birefringence in thermally anisotropic relativistic plasmas and its impact on laser–plasma interactions

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, June 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Alexey Arefiev, Dr Alexey Arefiev

  52. Power Scaling for Collimated γ -Ray Beams Generated by Structured Laser-Irradiated Targets and Its Application to Two-Photon Pair P...

    Article • Physical Review Applied, May 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  53. Electron confinement by laser-driven azimuthal magnetic fields during direct laser acceleration

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Alexey Arefiev, Dr Alexey Arefiev

  54. Relativistic plasma physics in supercritical fields

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Peng Zhang, Stepan Bulanov, Alexey Arefiev, Dr Alexey Arefiev

  55. Energy gain by laser-accelerated electrons in a strong magnetic field

    Article • Physical Review E, April 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  56. Net energy gain in direct laser acceleration due to enhanced dephasing induced by an applied magnetic field

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, February 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  57. Laser reflection as a catalyst for direct laser acceleration in multipicosecond laser-plasma interaction

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, January 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  58. Radiation reaction as an energy enhancement mechanism for laser-irradiated electrons in a strong plasma magnetic field

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  59. Laser-driven acceleration of quasi-monoenergetic, near-collimated titanium ions via a transparency-enhanced acceleration scheme

    Article • New Journal of Physics, October 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev, Jun Li

  60. Radiation rebound and quantum splash in electron-laser collisions

    Article • Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, September 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  61. Extreme nonlinear dynamics in vacuum laser acceleration with a crossed beam configuration

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, September 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev, Alexey Arefiev

  62. Direct laser acceleration of electrons in the plasma bubble by tightly focused laser pulses

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, August 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev, Alexey Arefiev

  63. Impact of ion dynamics on laser-driven electron acceleration and gamma-ray emission in structured targets at ultra-high laser intensities

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, May 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  64. Probing and possible application of the QED vacuum with micro-bubble implosions induced by ultra-intense laser pulses

    Article • Matter and Radiation at Extremes, May 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev, Alexey Arefiev

  65. Relativistic proton emission from ultrahigh-energy-density nanosphere generated by microbubble implosion

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, April 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev, Alexey Arefiev

  66. Ionization injection of highly-charged copper ions for laser driven acceleration from ultra-thin foils

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey Arefiev, Jun Li

  67. Structured targets for detection of Megatesla-level magnetic fields through Faraday rotation of XFEL beams

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, January 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev, Alexey Arefiev

  68. Highly collimated electron acceleration by longitudinal laser fields in a hollow-core target

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, December 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  69. High-angle deflection of the energetic electrons by a voluminous magnetic structure in near-normal intense laser-plasma interactions

    Article • Physical Review E, November 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  70. The unexpected role of evolving longitudinal electric fields in generating energetic electrons in relativistically transparent plasmas

    Article • New Journal of Physics, September 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  71. Generation of ultrahigh field by micro-bubble implosion

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  72. Interaction of an electron with coherent dipole radiation: Role of convergence and anti-dephasing

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  73. Laser-driven strong magnetostatic fields with applications to charged beam transport and magnetized high energy-density physics

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev, Michael Ehret

  74. Leveraging extreme laser-driven magnetic fields for gamma-ray generation and pair production

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, March 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  75. Kinetic simulations of X-B and O-X-B mode conversion and its deterioration at high input power

    Article • Nuclear Fusion, August 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  76. Nonlinear parametric resonance of relativistic electrons with a linearly polarized laser pulse in a plasma channel

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, April 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  77. Parametric decay of plasma waves near the upper-hybrid resonance

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, March 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  78. Investigation of laser pulse length and pre-plasma scale length impact on hot electron generation on OMEGA-EP

    Article • New Journal of Physics, February 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  79. Breaking of dynamical adiabaticity in direct laser acceleration of electrons

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, February 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  80. Self-aligning concave relativistic plasma mirror with adjustable focus

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, January 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  81. Direct laser acceleration of electrons in plasma bubbles or ion channels with and without a longitudinal wakefield

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  82. Enhanced proton acceleration in an applied longitudinal magnetic field

    Article • New Journal of Physics, October 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  83. Universal scalings for laser acceleration of electrons in ion channels

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, October 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  84. Enhanced Multi-MeV Photon Emission by a Laser-Driven Electron Beam in a Self-Generated Magnetic Field

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  85. Beyond the ponderomotive limit: Direct laser acceleration of relativistic electrons in sub-critical plasmas

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, April 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  86. Generation of Superponderomotive Electrons in Multipicosecond Interactions of Kilojoule Laser Beams with Solid-Density Plasmas

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  87. Spontaneous emergence of non-planar electron orbits during direct laser acceleration by a linearly polarized laser pulse

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, February 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  88. Compact tunable Compton x-ray source from laser wakefield accelerator and plasma mirror

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  89. Criterion for correctly simulating relativistic electron motion in a high-intensity laser field

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  90. Summary report of working group 2: Computations for accelerator physics

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  91. Non-Maxwellian electron distributions resulting from direct laser acceleration in near-critical plasmas

    Article • Matter and Radiation at Extremes, January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  92. The effect of superluminal phase velocity on electron acceleration in a powerful electromagnetic wave

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, August 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  93. Relativistic Plasma Polarizer: Impact of Temperature Anisotropy on Relativistic Transparency

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  94. Laser generation of ultra-short neutron bursts from high atomic number converters

    Article • May 2015, SPIE

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  95. Novel aspects of direct laser acceleration of relativistic electrons

    Article • Journal of Plasma Physics, May 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  96. Laser-to-hot-electron conversion limitations in relativistic laser matter interactions due to multi-picosecond dynamics

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, April 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  97. Compact tunable Compton x-ray source from laser-plasma accelerator and plasma mirror

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, February 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  98. Temporal resolution criterion for correctly simulating relativistic electron motion in a high-intensity laser field

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, January 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  99. Kinetic simulations of X-B and O-X-B mode conversion

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  100. Ultrashort Pulsed Neutron Source

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  101. Enhancement of laser-driven electron acceleration in an ion channel

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, March 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  102. Observation of Self-Sustaining Relativistic Ionization Wave Launched by a Sheath Field

    Article • Physical Review Letters, January 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  103. Observation of Self-Sustaining Relativistic Ionization Wave Launched by Sheath Field

    Article • January 2014, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  104. Generating “Superponderomotive” Electrons due to a Non-Wake-Field Interaction between a Laser Pulse and a Longitudinal Electric Field

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  105. Spatio-temporal profiling of cluster mass fraction in a pulsed supersonic gas jet by frequency-domain holography

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, July 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  106. Parametric amplification of laser-driven acceleration in a plasma channel

    Article • January 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  107. Parametric Amplification of Laser-Driven Electron Acceleration in Underdense Plasma

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  108. Characterization of cluster/monomer ratio in pulsed supersonic gas jets

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, February 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  109. Measurements and modeling of radio frequency field structures in a helicon plasma

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, January 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  110. Size distribution and mass fraction of microclusters in laser-irradiated plasmas

    Article • High Energy Density Physics, June 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  111. Generation of Fast Ions by Microclusters

    Article • Plasma and Fusion Research, January 2010, Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  112. Collisionless plasma expansion into vacuum: Two new twists on an old problem

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  113. Magnetic nozzle and plasma detachment model for a steady-state flow

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  114. Ambipolar acceleration of ions in a magnetic nozzle

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, January 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  115. Ion acceleration by hot electrons in microclusters

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, July 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  116. Resonant power absorption in helicon plasma sources

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, December 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  117. Propagation of radially localized helicon waves in longitudinally nonuniform plasmas

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, June 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  118. Status of Magnetic Nozzle and Plasma Detachment Experiment

    Article • January 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  119. Publisher’s Note: “Nonlinear physics of laser-irradiated microclusters” [Phys. Plasmas 12, 056706 (2005)]

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, August 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  120. Nonlinear physics of laser-irradiated microclusters

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  121. Magnetohydrodynamic scenario of plasma detachment in a magnetic nozzle

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, April 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  122. Harmonic generation in clusters

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, July 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  123. Theoretical components of the VASIMR plasma propulsion concept

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  124. Electron response in laser-irradiated microclusters

    Article • Plasma Physics Reports, July 2003, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  125. Ion kinetics in a magnetized plasma source

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, March 2002, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  126. l=1 diocotron instability of single charged plasmas

    Article • Plasma Physics Reports, February 2002, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  127. Single-pass ion cyclotron resonance absorption

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, March 2001, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey Arefiev

  128. Radially Localized Helicon Modes in Nonuniform Plasma

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey Arefiev