EDUCATION

• Mathematics and Physics School No 444, Moscow, Russia
• B.S., Biology; Mathematical Biology, Moscow State University, Russia, 1985-1989
• M.S., Comp. Anatomy & Pop. Ecology, Moscow State University, Russia, 1989-1991
• 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

• Distinguished Early-Career Teaching Award, College of Science, University of Arizona, 2007
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow in Science & Engineering, 2005-2010, UA News, Foundation News
• NSF CAREER Award, 2005-2010

• “Most Inspirational Faculty”, Graduating seniors, College of Science, Univ. Arizona, 2006, 2007
• Director, Cooper Ornithological Society, 2006-2009
• Elective Member, the American Ornithologists' Union, 2003
• Visiting Foreign Researcher, Uppsala University, 2004-2008
• The John Maynard Smith Prize - European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 2001, The Genetics Newsletter
• The Dobzhansky Award - International Society for the Study of Evolution, 2001, UM Focus, AU News
• College of Science & Mathematics Fellowship, Auburn University, 1999-2000
• Bertha Morton Fellowship Award for Excellence in Research, University of Montana, 1998
• Bertha Morton Graduate Awards for Research, University of Montana 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
• "The Highest Appraisal" Award -Thesis, Dept. "Publication Endorsement" for MSU Press, 1990

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• 2006-curr. Associate Professor, University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• 2002-2006 Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• 2002-curr. University of Arizona; Faculty Curator of Birds, University of Arizona's Museum of Natural History
• 1998-99 University of Montana, Instructor/Lecturer
• 1991-92 Alaska Fish & Wildlife Research Center; Research Associate
• 1991-92 Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Kaktovik; Research Associate
• 1990 Moscow Univ. Lab of Ornithology, Expeditions to the Caucasus National Preserves; Lead Biologist
• 1987-1990 Moscow Univ. Zool. Museum, Biological Surveys of the Far East, Korea, and Sea of Japan; Lead Biologist
• 1986-89 Moscow Univ. Zool. Museum, Winter expeditions to the Middle East and Transcaucasia; Research Associate
• 1984-1990 Moscow Univ. Lab of Ornithology, Biological Surveys of Western Himalaya Avifauna; Project PI
• 1987-1989 Losiny Ostrov National Park; Staff Biologist
• 1986-1988 RSFR Academy of Sciences; Biological Surveys of Kamchatka Peninsula; Ornithologist

TEACHING

• ECOL 330 - Evolution of Animal Form and Function (Writing Emphasis, 2003-2007)
• ECOL 596E -Concepts in Developmental Evolution (2004)
• ECOL 597G -Grant Writing in Biological Sciences (2005-2007)
• ECOL 610 - Ecology & Evolution Research (2002-2003)
• ECOL 492, 595 - Directed research, Independent Study (2002-2007)
• ECOL 497, 498 - Honor Thesis (2002-2007)
• ECOL 497A - Teaching Biology (undergrad TA training), (2003)

• BIOL 302 -Comparative Vertebrate Embryology (1998/45)(1999/32)
• BIOL 499 - Honors Thesis Projects (7 students)
• BIOL 200 -General Botany (summer class) (1989/68)
• BIOL 200 -General Zoology (summer class) (1989/68)
• Postgraduate Workshop: “Path Analysis in Biology” - University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

• ECOL 600 -Evolution Core (2003)
• ECOL 405 -Behavioral Ecology (2003)
• BIOL 306 -Mammalogy and Mammalogy Lab (1996/97; 1997/82; 1998/74)
• BIOL 232 -Genetics & Evolution (1996/168 - TA for 6 sections; 1997/85)
• BIOL 450 -Animal Behavior (1995/42 - TA)
• BIOL 340 -Ecology Lab (1994/51; 1995/47)

GRANT SUPPORT

• 2005-2010 The Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering,"Evolution of diversity in animal coloration: A novel evolutionary synthesis"
• 2005-2010 NSF CAREER, Integrative Biology, "Evolution and ontogeny of conditional mating tactics" (PI) >>
• 2004-2008 NSF, Mathematical Biology, “Evolution of conditional mating tactics in the house finch: Empirical and mathematical insights into origin and maintenance" (PI) >>
• 2006-2008 NSF DDIG (Rebecca Young), Population and Evolutionary Processes, "Developmental origins and evolutionary consequences of modularity in a complex trait" >>
• 2002-2006 NSF, PopBio, “The evolution of maternal effects in a model avian system” (PI) >>
• 2000-2002 NSF, PopBio ”The evolution of sexual dimorphism in recently established populations: An ontogenetic perspective” (PI) >>
• Other: 2001, 2002 NSF REU supplements; 1998 NSF Travel Award; 1986-1992 MSU Lab of Ornithology Annual Research Grants

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (selected, last 3 years):

-Steering Committee, NSF Research Coordination Network: Integrating Ecology and Endocrinology in Avian Reproduction (2005-cur)

-NSF Panels: DDIGs, Behavioral Systems (Integrative Organismal Biology), Mathematical Biology (2004, 2005), Animal Behavior (2006-7)

-Newcomb Cleveland Prize Reviewer, AAAS (2006)

-Expert Dissertation Opponent: Gothenburg University, Sweden (2003); The University of Queensland, Australia (2003)

-American Ornithologists' Union Research Awards Committee

-Reviewer for scientific journals (> 2001, selected): Evolution (42, then AE); American Naturalist (27); Proceedings of the Royal Society London: Biol. Sciences (27); Ecology (4); Heredity (19); Journal of Evolutionary Biology (29, then AE); Science (3); Nature (2); Trends in Ecology and Evolution (4); J. Animal Ecology (9); Animal Behaviour (7); Behavioral Ecology (19); Behav. Ecol. & Sociobiol. (4); Ardea (6); Auk (17); Condor (12); Birds of North America (3); Southwestern Naturalist (3);Theoretical Biology (2); J. Avian Biology (11); Wilson Bulletin (12); Ibis (5); American Midl. Naturalist (2); Ethology (7); Ethologia (3); Nature News (2); Science News (2); Genetica (11); PNAS (3)

-Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (USA) Programs: Animal Behavior (16 proposals), Population Biology (24); Ecological & Evolutionary Physiology Program (20), Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms (2), Collaborative Research (11), NSF EPSCor (9)

-Board & Ad hoc Reviewer for the United Kingdom National Environment Research Council (12), Austrian Science Foundation (6), Marie Curie European Union Postgraduate Fellowships (8).

-Reviewer: Princeton University Press (3 books, 4 book proposals); Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution (3 books); Academic Press (Elsevier) (Evolution textbooks; 3)

RESEARCH FEATURED IN

2005-2006

Scientific American, Science, UA News, CBC Radio interview, Quirks & Quarks site, Arizona Daily Star, Image of the Day-LiveScience, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Terra Daily, Noorderlicht Online, VPRO, Biology-Blog, Die Zeit, Die News in Kürze-3Sat, InnovReport, NewsWise

2000-2002

Science (News of the Week);Trends of Ecology & Evolution ; Scientific American; Natural History; USA Today; Wissenschaft; National Geographic; National Public Radio; The New York Times; Discovery Channel Canada; NewsDay of New York; The Economist; Science Highlights (CalAcademy of Science); Academic Press InScight; Climate Ark; Forests.org; Auburn University News; University of Arizona News: Science Page

<2000

BBC Wildlife Magazine;Green Umbrella Ltd. U.K. Television documentary "Triumph of Life", Episode "Mate choice in the house finches"; Miami Herald; Contra Costa Times; Anchorage Daily News; The Philadelphia Inquirer; Charlotte Observer; Detroit Free Press; Arizona Republic; The News and Observer of Raleigh

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• Society for the Study of Evolution
• American Society of Naturalists
• Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• European Society for Evolutionary Biology
• Cooper Ornithological Society
• American Ornithologists' Union
• Ecological Society of America