CV

24.10.2012 – up to date

Candidate of Biological Sciences (equivalent of 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

Supervisor: Prof. L.O. Tasenkevich

01.07.2005 – 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

01.09.2001 – 30.06.2005

BSc degree in Biology

Ivan Franko Lviv National University

“Comparative morphology and vascular anatomy of the flower of Orhithogalum caudatum”

Supervisor: Prof. S.A. Volgin

01.10.2015 – up to date

Curator of LWS herbarium

State Natural History Museum NAS of Ukraine

01.11.2010 – up to date

Junior Scientific Researcher

Department of Biosystematics and Evolution

State Natural History Museum NAS of Ukraine

01.11.2013 – 31.12.2013

Senior Scientific Researcher

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)

09.03.2015 – 13.03.2015

DNA Barcoding Course in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

01.06.2015 – 01.06.2016

Rufford Small Grant RSG-16667-1

“Monkshoods in Chornogora Mts. (Ukrainian Carpathians): what, why and how we should protect?”

01.10.2014 – 30.09.2016

Stipendium of President of Ukraine for Young Scientists

11.04.2014 – 11.04.2015

Grant of Systematics Research Fund (SRF 2013/2014) of the Systematics Association

“Publication of the book “Modern Systematics of Higher Plants: An Introductory Guide””.

01.06.2013 – 30.06.2013

Scholarship of the Queen Jadwiga Fund

Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland

“The phylogenetic relationships within the genus Aconitum L. (Ranunculaceae) based on the comparative flower morphology”

Supervisor: Prof. J. Mitka

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 Fund

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 Czornohora and Svydovets Mountains (Ukrainian Carpathians)

Supervisor: Dr. J. Korzeniak (Institute of Nature Conservation PAS, Poland)

01.02.2009 – 28.02.2009

Scholarship of the Queen Jadwiga Fund

Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland

“Morphology of representatives of the genus Aconitum from the Eastern Carpathians”

Supervisor: Prof. J. Mitka

01.06.2014

Award of the Lviv Regional Council for Young Scientists for the best investigation results

01.05.2014 – up to date

Member of Polish Botanical Society

01.07.2012 – up to date

Ambassador of the Scratchpads in Ukraine

10.01.2012 – up to date

Member of Free International Association of Researchers on Natural Substances (FIARNS09)

01.12.2011 – up to date

Member of Systematics Association

01.10.2011 – up to date

Founder and Executive Editor of “Modern Phytomorphology” journal (ISSN 2226-3063, eISSN 2227-9555; https://phytomorphology.org/)

01.07.2011 – up to date

Head of Scientific Society “Modern Phytomorphology” and secretary of the conference “Modern Phytomorphology”.

01.06.2011 – up to date

Founder of Modern Phytomorphology Lab

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 – up to date

Member of Ukrainian Botanical Society

30.06.2006

Honor 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

Professional techniques:

Plant morphology, plant conservation, journal publishing, vegetation studies, chorology, GIS, histology, life forms investigation, light microscopy, morphogenetic studies, morphometry, museology, Natura 2000 desriptions, palynomorphological analysis, phenetic classification, plant phylogeny and taxonomy, sozology, Scratchpads, statistic analysis advanced data processing.

Computer literacy:

Advanced user of Microsoft Office and similar programs, statistic analysis of data by StatSoft Statistica, specialized software i.e. ImageJ, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Corel Draw, ABBYY FineReader, WordPress, QGIS, web-based database resources. Basic knowledge on SQL. 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.