World-class educators · Industry pioneers
Distinguished Faculty
Learn from the architects of modern search. Our faculty includes Google veterans, Semrush data scientists, Yandex engineers, and award-winning digital economists who bring Harvard-style rigor to every lecture.
45+
world-class faculty members
15+
average years of industry experience
100%
active industry practitioners & researchers
Core Faculty
Kernfakultät
Corps professoral principal
核心师资
Основной состав преподавателей
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Dr. Elena Volkov
Dean of SEO Academy
Former Head of Search Quality at Yandex, PhD in Computational Linguistics. Author of "Algorithmic Search Dynamics".
Search AlgorithmsLinguisticsSEO Leadership
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Marcus Thorne
Professor of Technical SEO
15+ years at Google as Search Infrastructure Engineer. Core Web Vitals architect. Leads our Technical SEO Lab.
Core Web VitalsCrawlingJavaScript SEO
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Dr. Wei Zhang
Director of Multilingual SEO Research
Former Baidu International SEO lead. Expertise in hreflang, cross-border link building, Asian search ecosystems.
HreflangBaidu SEOInternational SEO
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Sophia Rossi
Chair, SEO Analytics & Data Science
Data Scientist at Semrush, co-author of "Python for SEO". Teaches predictive modeling and BigQuery automation.
PythonBigQueryPredictive Analytics
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Dr. Hassan Nasser
Professor of Digital Economics
Oxford PhD, former economic advisor to Google. Focuses on ROI of SEO, market dynamics, and search behavior.
SEO EconomicsMarket AnalysisAttribution
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Anastasia Kuzmina
Lead Instructor, Content SEO & Strategy
Former Head of Content at Ahrefs, specializes in topic clustering, entity SEO, and content architecture for enterprises.
Content StrategyTopic ClustersEntity SEO
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Global Advisory Board
Globaler Beirat
Conseil consultatif mondial
全球顾问委员会
Международный консультативный совет
James Brighton
VP Search, Google EMEA
Olga Sokolova
Chief SEO Officer, Semrush
Dr. Hiroshi Tanaka
Search Algorithm Researcher, Tokyo Tech
“The best SEO education combines academic rigor with the wisdom of those who shaped the search industry. Our faculty brings both.”