Academic Secretary - Functions and Responsibilities

• Leads the preparation of proposals for long-term and annual research planning
• Monitors the implementation of research plans and prepares consolidated reports
• Coordinates the development of plans and procedures to improve the Institute’s performance in research, labor organization, and management
• Prepares plans for Scientific Council activities and controls their implementation
• Develops publication plans and monitors their implementation
• Coordinates the organization of conferences, workshops, seminars, and discussions
• Administers the activities of the MPI library, museum, archive, press, and international relations
• Develops the personnel rating criteria and manages the qualification process
• Prepares proposals for continuing education courses and exchange programs

Education and Degrees

• Ph.D. (Geology and Mineralogy), Melnikov Permafrost Institute, 2015. Dissertation: Eolian Periglacial Landforms (Tukulans) in Central Yakutia: Structure, Origin, Age, and Distribution
• M.S. (Geocryology), Yakutsk State University, 2007

Research Interests

• perennial frost mounds
• tukulans (periglacial sand dunes in Yakutia)
• ground ice
• radiocarbon dating
• paleoenvironmental reconstruction
• grain micromorphology

Current and Recent Projects

• SB RAS Basic Research Project, 2021-2025: Structure of Continental Permafrost and Key Stages of Its Evolution during the Neopleistocene and Holocene (Participant)
• Russian Foundation for Basic Research – National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant (RFBR Grant No. 20-55-53006), 2020-2022: Rock and Soil Weathering in Cold Environments of Southern Yakutia, Russia and North-Eastern China: Mechanisms and Characteristics (Participant)
• Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR Grant No. 18-55-53054) – National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC Grant No. 41811530093), 2018-2019: Formation, Modern State of Pleistocene Cryogenic Deposits in Eastern Asia, and Forecast of Their Dynamics in Relation to the Ongoing Climatic Variations (Participant)
• SB RAS Basic Research Project IX.135.2.5, 2017-2020: Structure, Age and Development of Permafrost in the Interior Areas of Central and Northeast Asia –Block 3. Radiocarbon and Palynological History of Ultra-Continental Permafrost in Northeast Asia (Co-Investigator)
• SB RAS Basic Research Project VIII.77.2.2, 2013-2016: Mountain Glaciations and Permafrost in Continental Areas of Central and Northeastern Asia. Response of Glacial and Periglacial Formations to Recent Changes in Climate – Block 3. Eolian Periglacial Features (Tukulans) as Indicators of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Periglacial, Climatic and Environmental Processes in Central Yakutia (Principal Investigator)
• RFBR Project 14-05-00435_а, 2014-2016: Structure and Dynamics of Mountain Permafrost, Glaciers and Rock Glaciers in Central and Northeastern Asia during the Late Holocene (Co-Investigator)
• RFBR Project 13-05-12037 ОФИ_М_2013б 2013-2015: Distribution and Evolution of Subsea Permafrost in the Russia’s Eastern Arctic: Temperature Regime, Degradation Rates, Gas Seeps, and Modeling Based on Drilling and Geophysical Data (Co-Investigator)

Field Work

• 2013 – Vilyui River basin, studies to determine the age and current dynamics of ice-loess features in Central Yakutia
• 2012 – Central Yakutia, investigations of perennial frost mounds
• 2009-2011 – Lena River Delta, investigations of frost-related processes in the Arctic as part of the Russian-German expedition “Lena Delta”

Teaching

• 2011-present – Associate Professor, North-Eastern Federal University, Department of Applied Geology. Courses taught: Permafrost Science; Engineering Geology; Environmental Engineering
• Member, State Examination and Attestation Committees on Groundwater and Geotechnical Exploration for Graduate Degrees, North-Eastern Federal University
• State Attestation Committee for Graduate Degrees, North-Eastern Federal University (Yakutsk)

Honours and Awards

• 2020 Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Ministry of Education and Science Commendation