Education

• Mathematics and Physics School, No 444, Moscow, Russia
• B.S. Hons, Biology; Mathematical Biology, Moscow State University, Russia, 1985-1989
• M.S., Comparative Anatomy/Zoology of Vertebrates, Moscow State University, Russia, 1989-91
• M.S., Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, United States, 1992-1994
• Ph.D., Organismal Biology and Ecology, University of Montana, United States, 1994-1999
• Postdoctoral Fellow, COS and Mathematics, Auburn University, United States, 2000-2002
  
  

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Employment history

• Professor, University of Arizona, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 2009-cur.
• Associate Professor, University of Arizona, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 2006-2009
• Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 2002-2006
• Faculty Curator of Birds, Museum of Natural History, University of Arizona, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 2002-cur.
• Faculty Curator of Mammals, Museum of Natural History, University of Arizona, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 2007-cur.
• Instructor/Lecturer (Developmental Biology), University of Montana, Biological Sciences, 1998-1999
• Research Associate, Alaska Research Center, Anchorage, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991-1992
• Research Assistant, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Kaktovik, Nat. Park Service, 1991-1992
• Lead Biologist, Moscow State University Lab of Ornithology Expedition to the Caucasus National Preserves, 1990
• Lead Biologist, Moscow State University Zoological Museum Biological Surveys of the Far East, Koreas, and Sea of Japan, 1987-1990
• Project PI, Moscow State University Lab of Ornithology Biological Surveys of Western Himalaya Avifauna, 1984-1990
• Research Associate, Moscow State University Zoological Museum Winter expeditions to the Middle East and Transcaucasia, 1986-1989
• Ornithologist, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) Biological Surveys of Kamchatka Peninsula, 1986-1988

Teaching

Instructor/Lecturer:

University of Arizona

• ECOL 330 - Evolution of Animal Form and Function (2003-cur)
• ECOL 600A - Foundations of Evolution (Evolution Core) (2022)
• ECOL 596E - Concepts in Developmental Evolution (2004-cur)
• ECOL 597G - Grant Writing in Biological Sciences (2005-cur)
• ECOL 610 - Ecology & Evolution Research (2002-2003)

• BIOL 302 -Comparative Vertebrate Embryology (1998, 1999)
• BIOL 200 - General Botany (summer class) (1989)
• BIOL 200 - General Zoology (summer class) (1989)

• ECOL 600 - Evolution Core (2003-cur.)
• Multimedia: Storytelling in Natural Sciences: with Carol and Cecil Schwalbe (2012-)
• ECOL 405 - Behavioral Ecology (2003)
• BIOL 306 - Mammalogy and Mammalogy Lab (1996, 1997, 1998)
• BIOL 232 - Genetics & Evolution (1996: 6 sections, 1997)
• BIOL 450 -Animal Behavior (1995)
• BIOL 340 - Ecology Lab (1994, 1995)

Selected grant support:

• NSF DEB – Reconciling innovation and adaptation during ongoing range expansion, 2012-2018, PI (+REU supplements)
• NSF CAREER, Integrative Biology Program: Ecological and Physiological Systems – Evolution and ontogeny of conditional mating tactics in a model avian system, PI, 2005-2011
• The David and Lucile Packard Foundation – Evolution of diversity in animal coloration: A novel evolutionary synthesis, 2005-2010, 2010-2014, 2014-2016
• Fulbright Foundation Collaborative Research – Evolution of sex-determining systems in species with GSD, 2008-2010, co-PI
• NSF/ESF/NERC Research Coordination Network: “Integrating Ecology and Endocrinology”, 2005-2010, co-PI
• SSE 2009 “Darwin 200” Outreach Award for five public lectures and photoshow
• ESF/EU Science Council – Offspring sex determination: Integrating ecological context and proximate mechanisms of non-random meiosis, 2006-2009, co-PI.
• NSF DDIG (Rebecca Young-Ph.D. student) – Developmental origins and evolutionary consequences of modularity in a complex morphological trait, 2006-2009
• NSF Mathematical Biology Panel – UMB: Mathematical insights into origin, evolution, and maintenance of conditional mating tactics: 2005-2009, PI
• Kosciuszko Foundation – Rapid molecular evolution of spindle attachment sequences across avian species: Implications for maternal effects on sex-determination, 2006-2007, co-PI
• NSF Population Biology Panel – UMB supplement: The evolution of transgenerational effects, 2005-2009, PI
• NSF Population Biology Panel – The evolution of maternal effects in a model avian system. 2004-2009, PI
• University of Arizona, Foreign Collaborations Grant
• NSF Population Biology Panel – The evolution of sexual dimorphism in recently established populations: An ontogenetic perspective, 2000-2003, PI (+REU supplements)
  
  

National & international professional service (selected, last 3 years):

Administrative service
• Joseph Grinnell Award Committee, North American Ornithological Societies, 2012-2013
• Science magazine, Newcomb Cleveland Prize Reviewer, AAAS, 2006, 2007
• Steven J. Gould Award Committee, Society for the Study of Evolution, 2009-2011
• Rosemary Grant Award Committee, Society for the Study of Evolution, 2010-2012
• Board of Directors, Cooper Ornithological Society, 2006-2009
• Councilor, Society for the Study of Evolution, 2009-2011
• Steering Committee, RNC: Integrating Ecology and Endocrinology, NSF (USA), 2005-2009
• Chair, The Katma Award Committee, Cooper Ornithological Society, 2007-2010
• Student’s Research Award Committee, American Ornithologists’ Union, 2004-2007
• Promotion & Tenure reviewer: U. Washington, Cornell University, University of Texas, Austin, Virginia Tech, Iowa State University, UCLA, Texas A&M, Michigan State University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Oklahoma.
• External Faculty Evaluation Committee: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan (2009-2011). Principal Investigator selection for the following OIST Groups: Evolutionary Biology, Developmental Biology, Evolution of Complex Systems, Neurophysiology.
• Expert Dissertation Opponent: Gothenburg University (2003), University of Queensland (2003), Lund University (2006), Imperial (2007), University of Groningen (2011).

Grant panel service and reviews (last 5 years)

• National Science Foundation, United States:
              Panel member (2008-2014): Evolutionary Processes (DEB x 4), DDIG (x3), Behavioral Systems (IOB), Mathematical Biology.
              Ad hoc Reviewer (2002-cur.): Population Biology/Evolution Cluster/Evolution Processes (58 proposals), Animal Behavior (12), Ecological & Evolutionary Physiology Program (34), Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms (9), Collaborative Research (17), NSF EPSCor (9). NSF ADVANCE, 2011, 2012 reviewer.
  
• National Environmental Research Council, United Kingdom:
    Board Member:  2003-2007, 2012 (14 proposals)
  
• Board Member, Swedish Research Council, 2013 (12 “super-grant” proposals)
• Board Member, French National Research Agency (ANR), 2013-2014
• Board Member, NCN Poland Agency, 2013
• Board Member, Korean Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEST) Research Grants, 2011-2012
• Austrian Science Foundation: Panel member (2006-2012: 5 proposals)
• Marie Curie EU Postgraduate Fellowships: 2007-2009 Advisory Panel Member (8 proposals/year)
• Fulbright Commission (Czech Republic): Ad hoc reviewer, 2009-2011
• Reviewer, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, 2011-2012
• Reviewer, BSF (United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation), 3 proposals, 2011
• Reviewer & Panelist, Israel Science Foundation (ISF), 8 proposals, 2009-2011.