Victor R. Alekseev |
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Web of Science ResearcherID: |
https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/C-7086-2014 |
Scopus Author ID: |
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7202302661 |
RSCI: |
https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=78234 |
ORCID ID: |
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1968-2609 |
Google Scholar: |
https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=gHx7X0MAAAAJ |
Academic degree: |
Doctor of Biological Sciences |
Academic title: |
Professor |
Position: |
Principal Researcher |
E-mail: |
Victor.Alekseev@zin.ru |
Contact phone: |
+7 (812) 328-13-11, ext. 272 |
Educational background: |
Astrakhan State Technical University, Faculty of Fisheries, Department of Ichthyology and Hydrobiology, 1975. |
Dissertations: |
“Diapause of freshwater crustaceans.” (PhD habilitation) |
Research interests: |
dormancy in aquatic organisms, molecular-genetic and morphological systematic and phylogeny in copepods, astrobiology, microevolution in aquatic ecosystems, biological invasions. |
Field studies: |
Lake Baikal, participation in round-Baikal expeditions, 1984, 1996, 2003; Mongolia: Expedition to the Gobi Desert, 1995; expedition to the lake Hubsugul, 2000; Far East: Magadan, 1986; Primorye and Kamchatka, 2019; Caspian Sea, expedition, 1973; The Volga Delta, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1989, 2007; Lake Sevan, 1990; Lakes Onega and Ladoga, 2005, 2017, 2018, 2019; Taiwan Island, 2005, 2009; Southeast Asia (China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand), 2011, 2013; Mexico, 2009, 2011; Canada, Lakes of the Appalachian System, Quebec, 1997, 1998, 2000; Germany, Lakes of Holstein, 2000, 2001, 2003; Spain, Valencia Province, 2006, 2007, 2019; Delta Lena, 2016, 2017; Arkhangelsk Region, 1997; Leningrad region, from 1981 to 1987, and since 1991 till now.; Italy: Central Italy, 2000; Northern Italy, 2003; Slovenia, 2005; France, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2019; Ethiopia 2003; Belgium, 1998 – 2000; USA, 1996, 2017; Japan, 2010; Malaysia, 2009, 2011; Singapore, 1998; Central Asia, Uzbekistan, 1985. |
Professional membership: |
- International Society of Limnology (SIL)
- Moscow Society of Naturalists
- World Association of Copepodologists (WAC)
- The World Conservation Union
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Editorial activity: |
Member of editorial board of international zoological journals:
- “Arthropoda Selecta”, Moscow
- “Zoosystematica Rossica”, St.Petersburg
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Pedagogical activity: |
- 6 Ph.D. students successively defended within last 10 years
- 1992-today: Member of the PhD and Professor Graduation Council in Zoology, Aquatic Ecology and Limnology
- 2005-2010: Visiting Professor at the universities of Lille I and Littoral, France
- 2001-2004: Visiting Professor at the University of Provence, France
- 1996: Visiting Professor, Western University of St. Petersburg: Course of lectures “Scientific basis of ecological policy in well-developed countries”
- 1988-1991: Associated Professor, Moscow State University: Course of lectures “Aquaculture of Crustaceans”
- 1975-1977: Assistant Professor, Astrakhan State University: Course of lectures “Aquaculture in lakes”
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Scientific projects and grants: |
- 2007-2011 Bilateral Russia-France project with National Natural History Museum, Paris (co-investigator)
- 2008-2010 Bilateral scientific grant Russia-Ukraine: Study on copepod sibling species with molecular-genetic tools (co-investigator)
- 2008 4-month fellowship, Valencia State University, Spain
- 2009-2011 Bilateral Russia-France project with university Lille I “SENAVAL”
- 2010-2013 RFBR research grant: “Chemical communications in aquatic environment” (Principal Investigator)
- 2012-2015 Bilateral Russia-France project with National Natural History Museum on copepod dormancy in space, Paris
- 2014-2016 RFBR research grant: “Study on biological invasion in aquatic invertebrates via Arctic transporting gate” (Principal Investigator)
- 2017-2019 RFBR research grant: “Risk assesment and possible impact of alien species invasions into Russian continental arctic waterbodies”
- 2020-2022 RFBR research grant: “In search of the sea Tethys: Faunistic study of the remnants of the relict fauna of hydrobionts of the Tethys Sea using the method of molecular genetic dating” (Principal Investigator)
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Selected Publications: |
- Alekseev V.R. (1990). Diapauza rakoobraznykh: ekologicheskiye i fiziologicheskiye aspekty [Diapause in crustaceans: ecological and physiological aspects]. Moscow: Nauka Press. 144p [In Russian]
- Alekseev V.R. (1995). Copepods. // Key to freshwater invertebrates in Russia and adjacent territories. Vol 2. Crustaceans. SPb: ZIN. 80-128. [In Russian]
- Alekseev, V. R., & Starobogatov, Y. I. (1996). Types of diapause in Crustacea: definitions, distribution, evolution. Hydrobiologia, 320(1-3), 15-26.
- Alekseev, V., & Lampert, W. (2001). Maternal control of resting-egg production in Daphnia. Nature, 414(6866), 899-901.
- Alekseev, V. R. (2002). Copepoda. A guide to tropical freshwater zooplankton. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, 123-187.
- Alekseev, V., Dumont, H. J., Pensaert, J., Baribwegure, D., & Vanfleteren, J. R. (2006). A redescription of Eucyclops serrulatus (Fischer, 1851)(Crustacea: Copepoda: Cyclopoida) and some related taxa, with a phylogeny of the E. serrulatus‐group. Zoologica Scripta, 35(2), 123-147.
- Alekseev, V. R., De Stasio, B., & Gilbert, J. J. (Eds.). (2007). Diapause in aquatic invertebrates: theory and human use (Vol. 84). Springer Science & Business Media.
- Alekseev V.R., & Tsalolikhin S. Ya. (Eds.). (2010) Key to zooplankton and zoobenthos of fresh water in European Russia. Vol. 1. Zooplankton. Trudy ZIN. St-Petersburg. 495p.[in Russian]
- Alekseev, V. R., & Defaye, D. (2011). Taxonomic differentiation and world geographical distribution of the Eucyclops serrulatus group (Copepoda, Cyclopidae, Eucyclopinae). In Studies on freshwater Copepoda: a volume in honour of Bernard Dussart (pp. 41-72). Brill.
- Alekseev, V. R., & Souissi, A. (2011). A new species within the Eurytemora affinis complex (Copepoda: Calanoida) from the Atlantic Coast of USA, with observations on eight morphologically different European populations. Zootaxa, 2767(1), 41-56.
- Miracle, M. R., Alekseev, V., Monchenko, V., Sentandreu, V., & Vicente, E. (2013). Molecular-genetic-based contribution to the taxonomy of the Acanthocyclops robustus group. Journal of Natural History, 47(5-12), 863-888.
- Lajus, D., Sukhikh, N., & Alekseev, V. (2015). Cryptic or pseudocryptic: can morphological methods inform copepod taxonomy? An analysis of publications and a case study of the Eurytemora affinis species complex. Ecology and Evolution, 5(12), 2374-2385.
- Alekseev, V. R., Yusoff, F. M., & Fefilova, E. B. (2016). Continental copepod biodiversity in North-Eastern Borneo, Malaysia. Arthropoda Selecta, 25(2), 183-197.
- Alekseev, V. R. (2019). Revision of the genus Eucyclops (Claus, 1893) and subfamily Eucyclopinae of the world fauna. Arthropoda Selecta 28 (4), 490-514
- Alekseev, V. R., & Pinel-Alloul, B. (Eds.). (2019). Dormancy in Aquatic Organisms. Theory, Human Use and Modeling. Springer International Publishing.
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