Khalaim

Andrey Ivanovich

PhD, Research scientist


Birth date and place: 18 January 1977; Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia

Taxonomic specialization: Ichneumonidae

Research interests:
  • Systematics, morphology and zoogeography of Ichneumonidae (in particular Tersilochinae)
  • Fossil Ichneumonidae
Education and Degrees:
  • Kaliningrad State University (MSC in Biology), Russia
    – graduated in June 15, 1999
  • Candidate of biological sciences (PhD)
    "Parasitoid wasps of the subfamily Tersilochinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of Russia and adjacent countries"
    Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences
    St. Petersburg, Russia
    – March 25, 2003
Professional positions:
  • July 1994 – July 1999, Undergraduate student
    Faculty of Biology of Kaliningrad State University, Russia
  • November 1999 – January 2003, Postgraduate student
    Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences
    St. Petersburg, Russia
  • January 2003 – February 2004, Junior research scientist
    Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences
    St. Petersburg, Russia
  • February 2004 – current time, Research scientist
  • January 2008 – current time, Professor of category "D"
    Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas
    Cd. Victoria, México
Grants:
  • 2002
    Personal grants for students, post-graduate students and young scientists, Administration of St. Petersburg
    "Parasitoid wasps of the subfamily Tersilochinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of Russia and adjacent countries"
  • 2003
    Personal grants for students, post-graduate students and young scientists, Administration of St. Petersburg
    "Morphological evolution and development of parasitism in the subfamily Tersilochinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae)"
  • 2004–2007
    INTAS Project no. 03-51-4367
    "The terrestrial fauna and flora of the Insect Bed, Isle of Wight: interpreting the climate near the Eocene/Oligocene boundary"
  • 2004–2007
    Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Project no. 05-07-90179
    "Development software for multiinput interactive keys to animals in Internet on sites of Zoological Institute RAS servers"
  • 2004 – current time
    Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences Program "Origin and evolution of Biosphere", Subprogram II, Part 5 "Coevolution of abiotic and biotic events", Theme "Forming of recent insects fauna in context of evolution of biosphere"
  • 2007–2009
    Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Project no. 07-04-00454
    "Taxonomic diversity, zoogeographical and phylogenetic relations of hymenopterous entomophagous insects of Russia and adjacent countries"
  • 2009–2010
    Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Project no. 09-04-00789
    "Development of methods of taxonomical diagnostics of animals in research of biodiversity"
  • 2010 – current time
    Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Project no. 10-04-00265
    "Phylogenetic and zoogeographical relations, and taxonomy of petiolate hymenopterous insects (Apocrita) of the Old World fauna"
Work in foreign museums:
  • May 2001
    Institute of Zoology NAS, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 6–31 May 2005
    Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
  • 9–20 October 2005
    Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Germany
  • 15 May – 12 June 2006
    Institute of Entomology, České Budĕjovice, Czech Republic
  • 2–15 November 2007
    Institute of Entomology, České Budĕjovice, Czech Republic
  • 16–19 September 2008
    University of California, Riverside, U.S.A.
  • 17–24 March 2009
    Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), Santo Domingo, Costa Rica
  • 30 April – 5 May 2009
    Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • 30 October – 2 December 2009
    Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand
  • 27–29 May 2010
    Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
  • 11–15 October 2010
    Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, D.F., Mexico
  • 10 April – 9 May 2011
    Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
  • 22–29 May 2011
    University of Turku, Finland
Expeditions and field works:
  • 18–25 June 2003, Ukraine: Crimea
  • 8 June – 2 July 2004, Russia, Lower Volga river: Astrakhan and Volgograd regions
  • 21–28 May 2005, United Kingdom: Isle of Wight
  • 5 July – 9 August 2007, Russia, Altay Mts: Republic of Altay and Altay Territory
  • 7 July – 8 August 2008, Far East of Russia: Primorskiy reg.
  • 1–27 July 2009, Far East of Russia: Sakhalin reg.
Professional associations:

Last updated: 10 November 2011.