Membership in state academies of sciences, academic degree, academic title:
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
Place of work, position:
Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Contextual Anthropology
Professional activity:
Research interests: historical human ecology. This interdisciplinary field of modern archaeological science studies the impact of natural and social factors on various aspects of life in ancient and medieval societies, such as demographic structure, dietary traditions, and adaptive features. This area is developed using modern high-tech natural science methods from biology and chemistry.
* Hirsh index in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) – 23
* Scopus Hirsh index – 10
Member of the organizing committees of international conferences: "The Sungir Seminar" (England, 2004); "Human Ecology and Demography in the Past and Present" (Moscow, 2004); "Adaptation as a Factor in the Formation of the Anthropological Distinctiveness of Ancient and Modern Populations of Eurasia (in memory of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences T.I. Alekseyeva)" (Moscow, 2008); Member of the editorial boards of the journals "Etnograficheskoye Obozreniye", "KSIA" (Brief Communications of the Institute of Archaeology), and the periodical "OPUS: Interdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology" (from 2000 to the present); Member of the Academic Council of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IA RAS); Member of the Dissertation Council of the IA RAS
