Objective
| Comprehensive experience in the investigations on plant morphology, anatomy, taxonomy and chorology. Special expertise in the research of vascular anatomy and morphology of flower, as well as in the phenetic taxonomy of the genus Aconitum. Experienced in the conference organizing, journal publishing, websites’ building, and GIS-technologies. |
Education
| 24.10.2012 – till now | PhD degree in Botany “Anatomical and morphological structure of the spear in Eastern Carpathians genus Aconitum (Ranunculaceae Juss.)” Supervisor: Prof. L.O. Tasenkevich |
| 01.11.2007 – 31.10.2010 | Postgraduate student in Botany State Natural History Museum NAS of Ukraine |
| 01.09.2001 – 30.06.2006 | MSc degree in Botany Ivan Franko Lviv National University “Comparative morphology and vascular anatomy of the flower in the subfamily Bromelioideae representatives (Bromeliaceae)” Supervisor: PhD. A.V. Odintsova |
Work experience
| 01.11.2010 – till now | Junior Research Scientist Department of Biosystematics and Evolution State Natural History Museum NAS of Ukraine |
| 01.11.2013 – 31.12.2013 | Senior Rsearcher Botany Department Ivan Franko National University of Lviv |
| 01.09.2011 – 22.10.2012 | Assistant Professor Botany Department Ivan Franko National University of Lviv |
| 01.06.2010 – 15.09.2010 | Field Researcher Ukrainian Carpathians’ grassland inventory project (BBI-MATRA/2007/004) |
Scholarships and Trainings
| 16.05.2013 – 17.05.2013 | Scratchpads 2.0 (Basic Training Course) State Natural History Museum NAS of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine |
| 15.11.2012 – 11.02.2013 | The National Scholarship Program of Slovak Republic Institute of Botany SAS in Bratislava, Slovakia “Taxonomy and chorology of the genus Aconitum L. (Ranunculaceae) in Slovakian flora” Supervisor: RNDr., CSc. Kornélia Goliašová |
| 10.12.2012 – 24.12.2012 | Cybertaxonomy and biodiversity information with special emphasis on geospatial related data (Advanced Training Course) Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium |
| 07.06.2012 – 08.06.2012 | Scratchpads 2.0 (Advanced Training Course) Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet Stockholm, Sweden |
| 01.02.2011 – 28.02.2011 | Scholarship of the Queen Jadwiga Found Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland “Morphological variability and taxonomic structure of subgenus Anthora DC. (genus Aconitum L., Ranunculaceae Juss.)” Supervisor: Prof. J. Mitka |
| 15.07.2010 – 15.08.2010 | Participation in the second expedition for investigation of Nardus stricta L. communities in the Beskids Mountains (Ukrainian Carpathians) Supervisor: Dr. J. Korzeniak (Institute of Nature Conservation PAS, Poland) |
| 01.08.2009 – 15.08.2009 | Participation in the field expedition for investigation of Nardus stricta L. communities in the Czarnohora and Svidovets Mountains (Ukrainian Carpathians) Supervisor: Dr. J. Korzeniak (Institute of Nature Conservation PAS, Poland) |
| 01.02.2009 – 28.02.2009 | Scholarship of the Queen Jadwiga Found Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland “Morphology of representatives of the genus Aconitum from the Eastern Carpathians” Supervisor: Prof. J. Mitka |
Achievements and Memberships
| 01.07.2012 – till now | Ambassador of the Scratchpads in Ukraine |
| 10.01.2012 – till now | Member of Free International Association of Researchers on Natural Substances (FIARNS09) |
| 01.12.2011 – till now | Member of Systematics Association |
| 01.10.2011 – till now | Founder and Executive Editor of “Modern Phytomorphology” journal (ISSN 2226-3063 (printed), 2227-9555 (online); http://phytomorphology.org/) |
| 01.07.2011 – till now | Head of Scientific Society “Modern Phytomorphology” and secretary of the conference “Modern Phytomorphology”. |
| 01.06.2011 – till now | Founder of the P. Zhukovski Laboratory of the Plants’ Morphology and Anatomy State Natural History Museum NAS of Ukraine |
| 04.09.2010 | Award of the Lviv Regional Council for Young Scientists for the best investigation results |
| 03.06.2010 – till now | Member of Ukrainian Botanical Society |
| 30.06.2006 | Honours red diploma of MSc in Botany and special assignment to PhD courses |
| 2004 | All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in Biology Award for the best results in solution of systematical tasks |
| 2003 | Public organization “The Friends of Lviv University Inc.” Phillipsburg, USA Award for the best investigation results |
Key Skill
| Professional techniques: | anatomy, Braun-Blanquet vegetation description, chorology, clustering analysis, comparative morphology, DFA analysis, ecological anatomy, factor analysis, field expeditions, floristic analysis, GIS, gynoecium zonality by Leinfellner, histology, life forms investigation, light microscopy, micromorphology, morphogenetic studies, morphometry, museology, natural habitats description, nodal anatomy, palynomorphological analysis, phenetic classification, phylogeny, PLR analysis, sozology, Scratchpads, statistic analysis, taxonomy, tissue separation, vascular anatomy |
| Computer literacy: | advanced user of Microsoft Office and similar programs, statistic analysis of data by StatSoft Statistica, specialized software i.e. ImageJ, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Corel Draw, Corel PhotoPaint, ABBYY FineReader, WordPress, web-based database resources, system administrator with the skills of hardware maintenance and repairing. |
| Language competences: | English – medium level, Ukrainian – native, Russian – excellent, Polish – medium level, Slovak – basic level. |
Interests
| Mountain and cross country biking, tourism and mountain hiking, literature and poetry, fine art. |
