Anna Tokareva is an associate researcher at Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study since June 2023. She got her PhD in 2016 from the Institute for Nuclear Research RAS in Moscow, Russia after doctoral studies at the Moscow State University. After that she got postdoctoral experience at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and Imperial College London in the UK. Her main scientific results and interests are at the borderline between cosmology, quantum gravity and formal aspects of quantum field theory.