Alexandra is one of the richest Neuroscientist from Kazakhstan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alexandra Elbakyan's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)
She began Sci-Hub on her return to Kazakhstan in 2011, characterised by Science correspondent John Bohannon as “an awe-inspiring act of altruism or a massive criminal enterprise, depending on whom you ask.” Following a lawsuit brought in the US by the publisher Elsevier, Elbakyan is presently in hiding due to the risk of extradition; Elsevier has been granted an injunction against her and $15 million in damages. According to a 2016 interview, her neuroscience research is on hold, but she has enrolled in a history of science master’s program at a “small private university” in an undisclosed location. Her thesis focuses on scientific communication. In December 2016, Nature Publishing Group named Alexandra Elbakyan as one of the 10 people who most mattered in science in 2016.
