Researcher at Institute of Biodiversity, NGO

Boston, USA 

M.S. Biology, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 1999

Ph.D., Entomology, Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, 2003

Entomologist and Travelling Naturalist, working on weevils (Curculionoidea) (over 66000 species), the hugest group of beetles (Coleoptera), with a strong focus on systematics, evolution, and ecology of the subfamily Entiminae (ca. 14000 described species). Fieldwork experience in 6 ecozones of 5 continents of the Earth.