Secretary General (2019-): Alexey Alexeevich KOTOV

Citizenship and Nationality: Russian

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”), Ph.D., Dr.Sci.,

Professor of Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2016),

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2016)

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 A.V. Seversov 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 A.V. Seversov 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.

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 and Inha University, Seoul, South Korea (2011-2014, 2016-2018);
• Jinan University, Guangzhou, China (2012).

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-????_? (2009-2011), 09-04-10083-k (2009), 09-04-92302-???_? (2010), 14-14-00778 (2014-2017); 10-04_90716_ ???_??, 10-04-10009-k, 11-04-10038-?, 12-04-00207-?, 12-04-10052-?, 12-04-31556 ???_?, 13-04-10108-?, 13-04-07040-?, 14-04-10108-?; 15-04-08552-?, 16-34-50136-???_??, 17-34-50129-???_??,
• 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 supporting scholarship from Applied Taxonomic Research Center, Khon Kaen University, Thailand (03.-04.2003);
• US NSF PEET (2004-2008); ARC 1023334 (2010-2014)
• “Biodiversity”, Program of fundamental investigations of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences (2006-2013);
• Scholarship from Russian Science Support Foundation (2008-2009);
• The discovery of Korean Indigenous Species Project, NIBR (National Institute of Biological Resources), Republic of Korea (2011-2018);
• Russian Science Foundation project (“Biodiversity of the freshwater invertebrates and its formation with reference to the Cladocera (Crustacea)”, 2014-2016;
• Russian Science Foundation project 18-14-00325 (“Historical approach to the biogeography of continental waters of North Eurasia: Cladocera (Crustacea) as a model”, 2018-2020;
• Russian Foundation of Basic Research, project 18-04-00398 (“Extinction of the branchiopod crustaceans of the North-East of Eurasia in Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene as a sign of a biocoenotic crisis in the continental water bodies at that time”, 2018-2020);
• Government Program of Competitive Growth of Kazan Federal University (2016-2019).

ORGANISATION ACTIVITY:

• The Secretary General of the International Union of Biological Sciences (since 2019);
• Member of the Coordination Mechanism of Global Taxonomy Initiative, Convention on the Biological diversity UNEP;
• Academic Editor of “Scientific Reports” (Nature publishing Group), Q1 of WOS Core Collection;
• Editorial Broad of ‘Invertebrate Zoology’ (Moscow), SCOPUS;
• Field Editor of ‘Biologia’ (Bratislava), WOS Core Collection;
• Member of the Ph.D. Dissertation Committee (“Sovet”), ? 002.213.02 (A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow) in hydrobiology;
• A member of the Presidium of Higher Attestation Commission, Ministry of Education and Science (VAK) (2016-2019);
• A member of Bureau of the Scientific Committee on hydrobiology and ichtiology of Russian Academy of Sciences;
• 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);
• Member of the Crustacean Society.
• Member of the Presidium of the Hydrobiological Society at the Russian Academy of Sciences

RUSSIAN CRUSTACEAN SOCIETY (www.crustacea.ru):

• President of the Russian Crustacean Society (since 2018);
• The President of the Program Committee of the Conference “Crustacea: diversity, ecology and evolution”, Moscow, 30.10-02.11.2018. The Editor of the proceedings of this Conference which will be published in especial issue of “Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal” (WOS Core Collection);
• The President of the Program Committee of the Conference “Actual problems of investigations of the Crustacea” dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of Professor Nikolai N. Smirnov, Borok, 17-20.05.2018;
• The Editor of a special issue of “Invertebrate Zoology” (Scopus) dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of Professor Nikolai N. Smirnov.

REVIEWS for Journals: Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Annales de Limnologie, Archiv fuer Hydrobiologie, Biologia, Crustaceana, Freshwater Biology, Hydrobiologia, Invertebrate Systematics, Israel Journal of Zoology, Journal of Natural History, Journal of Plankton Research, PLOS One, Polar Biology, Review for Ecology and Evolution, Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, Scientific Reports, Studia Quaternaria, Marine Technology Society Journal, Zoological Journal of Linnean Society, Zoological Studies, Zootaxa
Biology Bulletin, Dokladi Biological Sciences, Genetics, Inland Water Biology, Invertebrate Zoology, Journal of SibFU – Biology, Ontogenesis, Povolzhsky Ecological Journal, Russian Journal of Biological Invasions, Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal.

CONFERENCES:

• 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th International Symposia on Cladocera in Postojna (Slovenia), Ploen (Germany), Wierzba (Poland), Herzberg (Switzerland) and Aguascalientes (Mexico) and Lednice (Czech Republic);
• 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;
• Workshop on Freshwater Invertebrates of Southeast Asia: Biodiversity and Origin, July 29th – August 4th, 2012, Taksila Hotel, Maha Sarakham, Thailand;
• Member of the Organization Commetee of the International School-conference «Recent problems of investigations of the crustaceans of continental waters», I.P. Papanin Institute of Inland Water Biology, Russia, Borok, 5–9 November of 2012;
• Session organiser, 15th International Meiofauna Conference in Korea. The future of meiofauna study. July 22th-26th 2013 at Hanyang University ERICA Campus, Ansan, Korea;
• XIII Subfossil Cladocera Workshop. Tallin, June 16-18, 2014.
• AquaRES workshop. Brussels, 28-30 September 2015;
• 32rd  IUBS General Assembly and Conference. Berlin, 14–16 December 2015 and meetings of the Executive Committee of IUBS (2016-2018);
• many specialized Conferences in Russia.