Dr. Alexey Kotov

CURRICULUM VITAE

			FIRST, MIDDLE, LAST NAME: Alexey Alexeevich KOTOV. BORN: March 28, 1966, in Moscow, Russia. CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONALITY: Russian. E-MAIL: alexey-a-kotov at yandex.ru OFFICIAL FAX: ++7 (495) 954-55-34 EMPLOYMENT: A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Sciences. Leninsky Prospect 33, Moscow 119071, Russia. POSITION: Leading Researcher ("veduschij nauchnij sotrudnik") EDUCATION: Middle education: Secondary School N11, Oktjabrskiy District of Moscow, 1973-1983; Higher education: Biological Faculty of Moscow State University, 1986-1991 (Diploma Master of Science, from 30.06.1991 [cum laude]); Ph.D. by Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Sciences, 10.03.1998 [Kotov, A. A., 1998. Comparative analysis of morphology of Anomopoda (Crustacea, Branchiopoda). Ph.D. Thesis. Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow. 309 pp.; Dr. Sci. by Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Sciences, 28.11.2006 [Kotov, A. A., 2006. Morphology, systematics and phylogeny of the cladocerans of order Anomopoda (Crustacea, Branchiopoda). Dr. Sci. Thesis, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow. 503 pp. MAIN SCIENTIFIC INTEREST: Cladocera (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) - all aspects of morphology, systematics, biology, phylogeography and palaeontology; general problems of Biodiversity inventarization and conservation. EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES: The State University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, - supported by research grant from the government of Flemish Community in the frame of cultural agreement between Russia and Flemish Community, IX-XII/1997; El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico - position of associated Investigator "C", supported by CONACYT through the Catedras Patrimoniales program, XI/2000 - XI/2002 (With expeditions to different regions of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala); Applied Taxonomic Research Center, Khon Kaen University, Thailand, III-IV/2003.; University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A., with several collecting trips in New York (2004 and 2006), Philadelphia, different states of New England (2004), Arizona, New Mexico, Texas (2005), and Alaska (2011); National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., U.S.A. (X-XI/2006 and I-II/2010); Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes and ECOSUR Chetumal, Mexico (10-11/2008); The State University of Ghent, Belgium (I/2010); Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea (2011). GRANTS: A grant "Ecological security of Russia" (1994-1995); A grant from the Biodiversity Foundation, Project 4.7.1 (1995-1996), and grant 02.0001.97 (1997-1999); Grants from the Russian Foundation of Basic Research 96-04-48063 (1996-1999), 99-04-48969 (1999-2001), 03-04-48879 (2003-2005), 06-04-48624 (2006-2008), 09-04-00201-a (2009-2011), 09-04-90213-Монг_а (2009-2011), 09-04-10083-k (2009), 09-04-92302-ШНФ_з (2010), 10-04_90716_ моб_ст, 10-04-10009-k; 11-04-10038-к; A scholarship of Russian Government to young scientists (1997-2000); A grant from CONACYT (15.11.2000-15.11.2002 through the Catedras Patrimoniales program and 10-11.2008); A grant from CONACYT through the Catedras Patrimoniales program (15.11.2000-15.11.2002); A supporting scholarship from Applied Taxonomic Research Center, Khon Kaen University, Thailand (03.-04.2003); US NSF PEET (2004-2008); "Biodiversity", Program of fundamental investigations of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences (2006-2010); Scholarship from Russian Science Support Foundation (2008-2009); The discovery of Korean Indigenous Species Project, NIBR (National Institute of Biological Resources), Republic of Korea (2011-2012). ORGANISATION ACTIVITY: Member of the Coordination Mechanism of Global Taxonomy Initiative, Convention on the Biological diversity UNEP; Editorial Broad of 'Invertebrate Zoology' (Moscow); Advisory Broad of 'Biologia' (Bratislava); Member of the Ph.D. Dissertation Committees ("Sovet"), Д 002.213.02 (A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow) and ДМ 002.036.01 (Institute of Inland Water Biology, Borok) in hydrobiology; Russian coordinator of a bilateral cooperative project between Russian and Polish Academies of Sciences " The study of response of Polish and Russia lakes to environmental change with a focus on climate and anthropogenic impact" (2011-2013). REVIEWS for Journals: Freshwater Biology (UK); Zoological Journal of Linnean Society (UK); Journal of Natural History (UK); Journal of Plankton Research (UK); Marine Technology Society Journal (USA); Annales de Limnologie (France); Polar Biology (Netherlands); Crustaceana (The Netherlands); Zoological Studies (Taiwan); Revista Brasileira de Zoologia (Brazil); Hydrobiologia (Belgium); Israel Journal of Zoology (Israel); Zootaxa (New Zealand); Biologia (Slovakia); Archiv fuer Hydrobiologie (Germany); Invertebrate Zoology (Russia); Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal (Russia); Ontogenesis (Russia); Inland Water Biology (Russia); Journal of SibFU. Biology (Russia); Russian Journal of Biological Invasions (Russia); Biology Bulletin (Russia). CONFERENCES: 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th International Symposia on Cladocera in Postojna (Slovenia), Ploen (Germany), Wierzba (Poland), Herzberg (Switzerland) and Aguascalientes (Mexico); 6th Meeting of Coordination Mechanism of the Global Taxonomy Initiative (Convention on Biodiversity, UNEP), Montreal, Canada (20-21/XI/2006); 2nd Ad Hoc Intergovernmental and Multi-Stakeholder Meeting on IPBES, Nairobi, Kenia (05-09/10/2009); Russian coordinator of the Swiss-Russian Seminar "Cladocerans (Crustacea) as model organisms for ecological and evolutionary research approaching the age of genomics", supported jointly by the Russian Foundation of Basic Research and Swiss National Science Foundation, Friburg, 8-10 November 2010; many specialized Conferences in Russia.