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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.