BOCHKOV A.V.: CURRICULUM VITAE                             Back to Bochkov A.V. Home Page

 

EDUCATION:

1996     Mgs. Sci. St. Petersburg State University (Biological Facultet, Department of Entomology), St. Petersburg, RUSSIA, 10. 06. 1996. (Diploma 619146).

            Thesis title: "The mites of the family Myobiidae: morphology, classification and host-parasite relationships".

1999     Ph.D. (Biology). Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, RUSSIA, 18. 05. 1999 (Diploma KT 003747). 

      *  Thesis title: "The mites of the family Myobiidae and their position in the system PDF [in Russian]".

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1986-1990              Laboratory Assistant Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

1990-1999              Collection Manager Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

1999-2001              Researcher Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

2000-2001              Visiting Researcher  Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium

PRESENT POSITION:

*       2001-present      Senior Researcher and Curator of Prostigmata (excluding Trombiculidae) and Astigmata (parasites of mammals) collections

                                     Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, (permanent position)

*       2003-present      Visiting Researcher Museum of Zoology, Michigan University, Ann Arbor, USA   Laboratory of Prof. B.M. OConnor

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY:

*       2005-present   Associate Editor of Acarina, Russian Acarological Journal

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETES:

*       Russian Entomological Society, Acarology section (1989-present time)

*       Belgian Royal Entomological Society (2003 - present time)

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

       Eleven expeditions for collecting mites and investigations of their fauna and ecology  in Middle Asia, Altai, North Caucasus,  NW Russia, and Kamchatka.