I am a University Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. Before that I was an Assistant Professor in Philosophy Department of the University of Missouri St Louis. I graduated from University of California San Diego with a PhD in Philosophy and Science Studies in 2006. 

Some facts about me: born and bred in Russia (Krasnodar, a city in the Northern Caucasus), I have also lived in France and Cyprus. In 1998 I went to the UK to do an MSc in Philosophy of Social Science at the London School of Economics. That's how I found my vocation and also met Robert Northcott who became my husband in June 2005. We have two sons: Andrei born in April 2008 and Michael born on October 2010. This is my dad.

Various news:

My next talk will be at the the conference entitled "Measures of Subjective Well-being for Public Policy: Philosophical Perspectives."  It will be held from 13-15 July 2012, at the University of Leeds.

Dan Haybron presented our "Paternalism in Economics" at the Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy "Freedom, Paternalism and Morality in April 1-2, 2011.

I participated in a symposium "Becoming Scientific: How Everyday Things Travel to Science and Back" at the Philosophy of Science Association Meeting in November 2010 in Montreal, along with Hasok Chang, Sophia Efstathiou and Greg Radick.

My essay "Making Models Count" received the 2008 Philosophy of Science Association Recent PhD Essay Award. Thanks, PSA!

Philosophers of science have a group blog. Thanks to Gabriele Contessa for running it! Please visit: http://itisonlyatheory.blogspot.com/