Date of birth: 12 of June, 1989

Education:

2011 – 2015: PhD in Biology, Penza state university (Russia) awarded in 2015. Dissertation title: «testate amoebae ecological preferences and it’s using for peatland hydrology reconstruction in Holocene ».

2006 – 2011: Penza state agricultural academy, specialist on technology of producing and processing of agricultural production, Russia.

Professional experience:

2015 – till present – senior researcher at Penza State University, laboratory of molecular ecology and taxonomy of animals.

Teaching Experience:

2013 – till present – associate professor, Department of biology and biochemistry at Penza State University, medical biology course for foreign students (using English language).

Participation in research projects:

2013-2015. Russian Foundation for basic research (RFBR) project № 13-04-00542 ‘’From the species structure to distribution of functional traits in communities: a new view to the nature of protozoan communities”;

2014-2016 RFBR project № 14-04-31472. “Peatland ecosystem hydrology reconstructions in forest-step zone of East-Europe plane in Holocene using testate amoebae analyses”.

2016-2018. RFBR project 16-04-00803. “Survey and differentiate community diversity of protists  in hierarchical environment: on the way to understand the rules of community formation.

2014 – 2018. RSF project № 14-14-00891 “Macroecology and microorganisms: from systematic and testate amoebae ecology to global regularity of biodiversity and environmental changes.

2016-2017. RF President project МД-7930.2016.4 “Local and regional formation factors of microorganism’s biodiversity formation: testate amoebae investigation in west Asia”.

2017-2019. RFBR project № 17-04-00320. “Changes of species structure of testate amoeba assemblages during the “water body – peatland” succession”.

2018-2020. RFBR project № 18-05-01115. “Sources and fluxes of Holocene atmospheric dust in the European part of Russia: a high-resolution reconstruction based on geochemical, physical and biological characteristics of ombrotrophic peat”.

Author of more than 26 publications including 12 articles on Scopus and WoS.