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Education

• Ph.D. Comparative Genomics and Molecular Evolution, 2007
  University of Iowa, USA
• Diploma in Biology, 1989
  Kharkiv University, Ukraine

Academic and Research Appointments

• Research Associate, 2012 – present
  Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Munich, Germany
• Research Associate, 2010 – 2012
  Department of Palaeontology and Geobiology, University of Munich, Germany
• Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007 – 2010
  Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany
• Graduate Research / Teaching Assistant, 2002 – 2007
  Department of Biology, The University of Iowa, USA
• Assistant Professor, 1993 – 2000
  Department of Biology, Kharkiv University, Ukraine
• Graduate/Junior Researcher, 1989 - 1993
  Department of Mycology, Institute of Botany, Kiev, Ukraine

Teaching experience

• Human Biology, lab course for non-biology major
• Evolution, lab course for bachelor students
• Systematic of Fungi, lecture course for bachelor students
• Fundamentals of Mycology, lecture and lab course for master students

Research interest

• Comparative Genomics and Molecular Evolution:  eukaryotic genome evolution, gene regulation of abiotic stress response in plants, metazoan phylogeny, algal phylogeny, endosymbiotic and horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes
• Plasma Medicine: application of low-temperature atmospheric-pressure plasma for chronic wound disinfection; effects of reactive species and UV radiation on human cells
• Aquatic fungi systematics and ecology

Awards

• „Gleichstellung in Forschung und Lehre“ LMU, Munich, Germany, 2010 – 2011
• Max-Planck fellowship, Munich, Germany, 2007 – 2010
• Avis Cone Fellowship, The University of Iowa, USA, 2004 – 2006

Professional societies memberships

• Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
• International Society of Plasma Medicine

Journal Referee

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
• New Journal of Physics
• Plasma Medicine Journal