About me

Candidate of geologo-mineralogical sciences in evolutionary paleontology,
Department of Paleontology, Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Russia.
Thesis: Middle-Upper Carboniferous and Permian trilobites from North Eurasia.
Abstract (in Russian)
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Aleksander S. Alekseev
Selected courses taken: History and Methodology of Science, Advanced Paleontology and Stratigraphy

M.Sc. in paleontology, Department of Paleontology, Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Russia.
Thesis: Permian trilobites from the ex-USSR territories.
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Aleksander S. Alekseev
Selected courses taken: Advanced Paleobotany, Antropology, Actual Problems of Paleontology, Bacteria in the Geological Past, Biomineralization, Evolution of the Biosphere, Invertebrate Paleozoology, History and Methodology of Geological Sciences, Paleographic Methods, Philosophical Problems of Natural Science, Reefogenic Structures in the Earth History, Vertebrate Paleobiology

B.Sc. in paleontology, Department of Paleontology, Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Russia.
Thesis: Serpukhovian trilobites from the Southern Urals (Western Kazakhstan and Bashkortostan).
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Aleksander S. Alekseev

RFBR 19-45-390001 r_a – Detalization and updating of the Paleogene stratigraphic scheme of the Kaliningrad region in order to improve forecasting and extraction of mineral resources

RFBR 18-35-00165 mol_a – Taxonomic and stratigraphic study of Trilobites from Middle-Upper Carboniferous and Permian of Northern Eurasia

Scholarship for outstanding achievements in scientific research Moscow State University

RFBR 12-05-00106 a – Global correlation of Pennsylvanian (Carbon iferous) biotic evstahemostratigraphic, paleogeographicaland climatic events as a basis for selecting GSSP.

Presidium RAS’ Basic Research Program Number 28, ‘The Origin of Life and the Biosphere Formation’, subprogram II

Paleontological Institute Fellowship Program for Young Scientists

Moscow State University President’s Fellow ship for Outstanding Un dergraduates.

Best presentation on the paleontological session at the ‘Lomonosov-2007 and -2009’ conferences, Moscow

Researcher, Laboratory of Atlantic Geology, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Acudemy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Research in the field of paleontology and stratigraphy of the Paleogene of the Kaliningrad region.

Chief Researcher, Museum of the World Ocean, Kaliningrad, Russia.
Work with paleontological and geological museum collections, exhibitions, lectures, etc.

Researcher, State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia.

Engineer-researcher, Geological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.

Research assistant, Laboratory of molluscs, Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Science (PIN RAS), Moscow.

Russian Geological Society rosgeo.org

Russian Crustacean Society crustacea.ru

Lecture. "Paleontology of Kaliningrad region", Vilnius University (Lithuania), Institute of Geosciences.

Interview. About fossils that can be found on the seacoast of the Kaliningrad region (watch from 3:40).

About work. About 3D-printing of fossil animals (models "Burgess shale fauna" and scan of skull Proconsul) in the Darwin Museum. As well as creating a showcase with these samples.

Public lecture titled ‘Possible causes of the Great Permian Extinction’ held at Institute of Geography of Russian Academy of Science (IG RAS), Moscow

Public lecture titled ‘On the birth and death of trilobites’ held at Geological Institute of Russian Academy of Science (GIN RAS), Moscow;

Co-organizer of the All-Russian Olympiad in Paleontology for high school students

Creation and support of the biggest Internet-community in RuNet "Paleontology and evolution of the Biosphere". As of April 2019, the number subscribers more than 45 000 people. Link to the resource https://vk.com/paleoevol

Assistant professor of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

General Paleontology, Paleontological Databeses, GIS for Paleobiologists, Fossil Record of Arthropoda for MSU undergraduates

Paleontology for school students (7-16 years old), Moscow Young Naturalists Station, www.mgsun.ru

• Preparation of fossils
• Maceration and isolation of microfossils (foraminifera, conodonts etc)
• Work with microscopes, including electronic
• Small experience with microtomography
• Work with 3D-scanner and 3D-printer
• Design and creation of museum showcases