Senior Scientist, scientific head of ArctAn-C Innovative Laboratory (Moscow, Russia).
Head of the Sula Lab (Balchik, Bulgaria).
International Independent University of Ecological and Political Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Professor, Chair of Human Ecology. Lecturer in Human ecology and Ecology of nutrition.
ACTIVITIES:
researches in physical and medical anthropology of the Uralic, Siberian and Northern
European (Lapland) indigenous populations of Russia; anthropology
and genetics of the populations of the Former Soviet Union and the Balkans.
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
anthropology of nutrition; health consequences of "modernization"; socioeconomic and
environmental stress influence on indigenous and migrant groups; physical anthropology.
EDUCATION AND DEGREES:
2004 -
Dr.Sci. (Physical Anthropology and Physiology)
1991 -
Scientific degree of Senior Scientist
1986 -
Ph.D. (Human Anatomy)
1977 -
M.D., Perm Medical Institute (physician)
MEMBERSHIP:
European Anthropological Association
International Arctic Social Society
Russian Geographic Society
WORK:
06/99 - till now
Head of Laboratory, Sula Lab (Balchik, Bulgaria)
09/96 - till now
Professor, International Independent University of Ecological and Political Sciences (Moscow, Russia).
A DNA bank representative of human genetic biodiversity in the Russian population
2nd University of Rome, "Tor Vergata", Italy and ArctAn-C Innovative Laboratory
2000-01
Stress under modernisation in the indigenous populations of Nothern Russia
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
1999
Population and medical genetics of the Trans-Caucasus populations
NATO Collaborative Research Grant ("ArctAn-C" Innovative Lab., 2nd University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy, and Baku Medical University, Azerbaijan)
1997
The Sad Arctic (medical anthropology of the Russian North)
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
1995
The Jag of Milk (lactose malabsorption in the populations of Northern Russia)
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
1994
The Reindeer People (anthropology of the Kola Saami)
International Scientific Foundation
1991-94
Medical Anthropology of the Komi-permyak People
"ArctAn-C" Innovative Laboratory
1987-92
Morphological-functional and physical characteristics of the indigenous and migrant populations of the West Siberia
Academy of the Medical Sciences of Russia, Siberian branch
PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY:
09/96 - till now
International Independent University of Ecological and Political Sciences (Moscow)
LECTURE COURSES: Human Ecology; Anthropology of Nutrition; Stress under "modernization" (graduate students of the 3-rd and 5-th years).
TUTOR of Bachelor and Master students in Human Ecology
INTERNET SITE: Recommendations on literature for students (in Russian)
1994
Moscow State University
TUTOR of a Master student in Physical Anthropology in Theme: "Fluctuating asymmetry of the dermatoglyphic traits"
1992
Moscow State University
TUTOR of a Master student in Physical Anthropology/Statistics in Theme: "Constitutional patterns of the dermatoglyphic traits"
02/87 - 06/92
Tjumen Medical Institute, the Chair of Human Anatomy
LECTURE COURSE: Medical anthropology. SEMINARS: Human anatomy
09/84 - 02/87
Perm Medical Institute, the Chair of Surgical Anatomy
SEMINARS: Topographic (Surgical) Anatomy
09/81 - 09/84
Perm Pedagogical Institute (Faculty of Biology), the Chair of Human Anatomy
LECTURE COURSES and SEMINARS: Functional Anatomy and Sports Anthropology