Personalia

Mikhail V. Kalyakin

ScD in Biological Sciences, director at the Zoological Museum of Moscow University

Research interests: ecology of the forest birds of Vietnam, morpho-functional analysis of the jaw apparatus of Passerine birds, fauna of birds of Moscow region, bird atlases, common birds monitoring, zoological collections.

Andrey A. Lissovsky

PhD, senior researcher at the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS

Research interests: mammals taxonomy and distribution, geographic variation and phylogeography of widespread mammals in Asia, zoological collections management.

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Vladimir Yu. Arkhipov

senior researcher at the Institute of theoretical and experimental biophysics RAS

Research interests: fauna and biogeography of birds, bioacoustics, biodiversity.

Geert Groot Koerkamp

Editor of biannual journal “Moskovka” (News of the programme “Birds of Moscow and the Moscow Region” at the Zoological Museum of Moscow University)

Research interests: birds of the Moscow region, distribution of large gulls, bird atlases, faunistics, phenology, citizen science.

Evgeny A. Koblik

PhD, senior researcher at the Zoological Museum of Moscow University; artist-naturalist

Research interests: taxonomy, fauna and biogeography of birds, birds' comparative morphology.

Yaroslav A. Red'kin

PhD, senior researcher at the Zoological Museum of Moscow University

Research interests: birds taxonomy and distribution, geographic variation and phylogeography of birds of Northern Eurasia, ornythology collections management.

Pavel A. Smirnov

zoologist at the Zoological Museum of Moscow University

Research interests: evolution, faunistics, taxonomy, biodiversity, environmental education, natural museum activities, anthropogenic extinction.

Pavel S. Tomkovich

ScD in Biological Sciences, leading researcher at the Zoological Museum of Moscow University

Scientific interests: avifauna of the Arctic, taxonomy, distribution, migrations, social organization and conservation of waders, museum activities.