Bio

Current Employment

August 2012 – present: Research associate and Deputy Head of Agricultural Policy Department, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) >>

Since 2025: Leader of research group Resilience of rural community in Central Asia

Since 2022: Representative of IAMO’s PostDoc Council

Since 2019: Spokesperson for IAMO’s Central Asia Research Group

Since 2017: Spokesperson for IAMO’s Coordination of Frameworks and Institutions (with Vladislav Valentinov)

2019-2024: PhD group leader within the Structured doctoral programme on Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia (SUSADICA), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation

2019-2025: Member of IAMO’s Ethics Committee

Previously

September 2011 – July 2012: Visiting researcher at the Department for economic and technological change in ZEF, University of Bonn. Responsibilities included compilation of database, data analysis and literature review on food security and regional economic cooperation in Central Asia.

June 2008 – December 2011: Senior Researcher in ZEF/UNESCO Development Research Project on Sustainable management of land and water resources in Uzbekistan. Main responsibilities included (i) research and capacity strengthening through an active in-country presence; (ii) support and supervision of research and capacity building activities via participation in specific empirical research, support of targeted training programs, and supervision of research and training activities within the project’s economic domain; (iii) contribution to project reports; policy communication between the project and local stakeholders in Uzbekistan through face-to-face meetings, regular research seminar series, publishing science/policy briefs; establishment/maintenance of links with national research institutions.

July 2002 - May 2008: Junior Researcher at ZEF, University of Bonn, in the framework of the ZEF/UNESCO Development Research Project on Sustainable management of land and water resources in Uzbekistan: Main responsibilities included (i) development and integration of bio-economic farm model FLEOM; (ii) development of partial equilibrium model for the Khorezm province KhoRASM; (iii) implementation of farm and household surveys; supervision of market surveys; (iv) design and compilation of project’s socio-economic database.

Education

2008: PhD in Agricultural Economics, Bonn International Graduate School for Development Research, ZEF/UNESCO Development research project, Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF, Centre for Development Research), University of Bonn, Germany.

2002:  MSc in International Economics, University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

2000:  BSc in International Economics, University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.