Leading Researcher at the Komarov Botanical Institute (St.Petersburg, Russia) since 1989, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology of the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) since 2014.

AUTHOR IDENTIFICATION CODES

ResearcherID: H-8111-2013

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6205-8492

Scopus ID: 6506803994

AREA OF SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

clarification of the diversity patterns of wood, bark or flower structure in relation to diversification, biogeographic history and adaptive strategies of selected plant groups, order Apiales

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

graduated from the Leningrad State University in 1985, defending his diploma work on structure, biochemistry and proliferation of mesoglea cells in sea anemones and scyphoid jellyfishes. He received his PhD (“Kandidat Nauk”) in Botany from the Komarov Botanical Institute in 1989, when he defended his thesis on wood anatomy of Araliaceae. From 1995 to 1996 he worked as postdoc at the Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products in Hamburg (Germany). He received his DSc from the Highest Attestaton Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in 2011

MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES

member of the Russian Botanical society (RBO), International Association of Wood Anatomists (IAWA), and St.Petersburg Association of Scientists and Scholars. He sits also on the Council of Interregional Society of Researchers (Russia); in 2014-2015 and 2017-2018 he functioned as Co-Chairmen of this Society

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

author of over hundred papers and other publications on plant anatomy, morphology, systematics, and paleobotany, including two books and 56 articles in the journals indexed in Web of Science (h= 9)

author of some 40 popular scientific essays and articles published in Expert Severo-Zapad, Izvestia, Troitsky Variant and other Russian magazins and newspapers

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