DATE OF BIRTH: 13 November 1972 SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS: Systematics, phylogeny and evolution of Curculionid-beetles (Curculionoidea); systematics of Mesozoic Curculionid-beetles; Genesis of beetles fauna of Eurasia. EDUCATION: 01.09.1990 – 21.04.1995 – Faculty of Protection of Plants of Novosibirsk State Agrarian University; 23.10.1995 – 23.10.1998 – Postgraduate study of Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science. QUALIFICATIONS: 1998 - Candidate (Ph.D.) of science thesis «Latitudinal and zonal distribution of weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from plains of Western Siberia, Kazakhstan and Central Asia» on the speciality "Entomology" (Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science; scientific adviser prof. V.G.Mordkovich); 2005 - Doctor (Grand Ph.D.) of science thesis «Leaf-rolling weevils (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae, Attelabidae) of the world fauna (morphology, phylogeny, systematics, ecology)» on the speciality "Entomology" (Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science; scientific adviser prof. V.G.Mordkovich); POSITIONS: 01.07.1995 - 01.11.1995 - Senior laboratory assistant - researcher of Biological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science; 23.10.1995 - 23.10.1998 - Post-graduate student of Zoological Museum of Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science; 23.11.1998 - 30.11.1999 - Junior research-scientist of Zoological Museum of Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science; 01.12.1999 - 31.01.2002 - Research-scientist of Zoological Museum of Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science; 01.02.2002 - 20.07.2006 - Senior research-scientist of Zoological Museum of Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science; 21.07.2006 - 04.2009 - Leading research-scientist of Zoological Museum of Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science; 04.2009 on present time – Head of sector "Biodiversity", leading research-scientist of Siberian Zoological Museum of Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science. CURATOR of: Curculionidea, Dermestidae, Bostrichidae, Anobiidae, Ptinidae (Coleoptera). THE BASIC RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY: EXPEDITIONS: Republic Bashkortostan, Orenburg Prov., Novosibirsk Prov., Altay terr., Jewish autonomous region, Khabarovsk terr., Primorye terr.; Ukraine, Kazakhstan. SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY: Russian Entomological Society Moscow Society of Naturalists THE OPPONENT OF THESIS: Dmitrieva I.N., Ph.D., 2006 Trilikauskas L.A., Ph.D., 2008 Gordeeva T.V., Ph.D., 2009 Shabalin S.A., Ph.D., 2009 Bokina I.G., Dr.Sci., 2009 SCIENTIFIC ADVISER of: Chabanenko E.V. GENERAL NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS: over 150

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