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Name in full: Olena Petrivna KAMENYEVA
Elena KAMENEVA,
Елена КАМЕНЕВА - Russian,
Олена КАМЕНЄВА - Ukrainian
Date of birth: August 19, 1959
Place of birth: Kiev, UKRAINE
Nationality: Ukrainian
Citizenship: Ukraine
Business address and telephone number: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Dept. of Entomology and Collection Management, Bogdan Chmielnicki St. 15 UA 01601, Kiev-30 UKRAINE.
FAX: +380442341569
E-Mail: kameneva.elena@gmail.com
Marital status. Married. Have a son.
Education
1991 - 1995. Postgraduate Course: I.I.Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology.
1977 - 1982. Kiev State University, Biological Faculty, Department of Invertebrate Zoology (Honors Diploma).
1967 - 1977. Primary & Secondary School, Kiev, Ukraine.
Highest Degree: Candidate of Sciences (=Ph.D.) in entomology, October 2000
Dissertation:
Picture-winged flies (Diptera, Ulidiidae) of the Palaearctic Region (fauna, morphology, systematics). Kiev: Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 2000: 332 p. (in Ukrainian) (manuscript). Cand. Sci. October 2000. [see attachments in the bottom of this page]
Number of Published Papers: 70.
Positions Held:
2011 - current time. I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine (Kiev), Section of General and Applied Entomology, Senior Research Scientist.
2001 - 2011. I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine (Kiev), Section of General and Applied Entomology, Research Scientist.
2000 - 2001. I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, Section of General and Applied Entomology, Senior Engineer.
1986 - 1992. All-Union Institute of Biocontrol for Plant Protection, Chişinău (Kishinev), Lab. of Weed Biocontrol. Senior Technician.
1982 - 1986. I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine Senior Technician.
Grants and Fellowships:
2022 - 2023 (April-March) Leibnitz & Phlip Schwartz Initiative Stipend, Museum für Naturkunde Leibnitz, Berlin.
2014 (August-October) - German Service of Academician Exchange (Deutscher Academischer Austauschdienst), Visitor Grant for Foreign Scientists (Studienaufenthalte ausländischer Wissenschaftler), Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2002 (October-December) - German Service of Academician Exchange (Deutscher Academischer Austauschdienst), Visitor Grant for Foreign Scientists (Studienaufenthalte ausländischer Wissenschaftler), Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2001 (September-October) - Ernest Mayr Fund, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma., USA, Travel Grant.
2001 (May-August) - Curtis Sabrosky Fund, US National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., Visitor Grant.
2000 (November) - Hungarian Natural History Museum, Visitor Grant.
2000 (May) - Tel Aviv University, Visitor Grant.
Current work deals mainly with study of taxonomy of the picture-winged flies worldwide.
Research interests :
Systematic of Diptera (Palaearctic Ulidiidae and Tephritidae: taxonomy, faunae, biology. Suprageneric taxonomy of Ulidiidae (Worldwide).
Faunistics of several Ukrainian Acalyptrate Diptera. Insects associated with asteraceous wild and weed plants; agents for biocontrol of weeds.
Skills in foreign languages: English: fair conversation, translation and scientific writing. Other: Russian - fluent. Polish - fair.