Alexandra Elbakyan

Alexandra Elbakyan
Alexandra Elbakyan
Александра Элбакян
	Elbakyan in 2021
Born	6 November 1988; Almaty, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Kazakhstani
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University (MS); Satbayev Kazakh National Technical University (BS);
Occupations	Scientific activist; Researcher; Security hacker;
Known for	Sci-Hub
Movement	Open Access
	Scientific career
Fields	Neural engineering, Computer science
Website	sci-hub.ru/alexandra

Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (Russian: Алекса́ндра Аса́новна Элбакя́н, born 6 November 1988) is a Kazakhstani computer programmer and creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers without regard for copyright. According to a study published in 2018, Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature.

Elbakyan has been described as "Science's Pirate Queen". In 2016, Nature included her in their list of the top ten "people who mattered" in science. Since 2011, she has been living in Russia.

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