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Alexey Yu. Solodovnikov
Web of Science ResearcherID:	https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/A-2298-2012
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ORCID ID:	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2031-849X
Google Scholar:	https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=QhoEM5AAAAAJ
Academic degree:	Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title:	No title
Position:	Senior Researcher
E-mail:	Alexey.Solodovnikov@zin.ru
Contact phone:	+7 (812) 328-12-12, ext. 203
Educational background:	Kuban State University, 1993
Dissertations:	“Fauna, ecology and zoogeography of the rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of the North-Western Caucasus” (PhD)
Research interests:	Phylogeny, systematics, ecology and biogeography, mainly rove beetles.
Field studies:	Globally; special interest to N and S temperate zones and fauna of Russia.
Professional membership:	Russian Entomological Society, https://www.zin.ru/societies/res/
Editorial activity:	Editorial Board member of “Zootaxa”, https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/ (in the past) Editorial Board member of “Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift”, https://dez.pensoft.net (in the past) Editorial Board member of “Caucasian Entomological Bulletin”, http://www.ssc-ras.ru/en/journal/caucasian_entomological_bulletin/ Editorial Board member of “Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae”, https://www.aemnp.eu
Scientific projects and grants:	RSF № 20-14-00097. «Insects of Russia through the digital view of entomological collections ». Project leader. 2020-2023. BIG4: Biosystematics, Informatics and Genomics of the four largest insect groups. European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 642241. Project leader. 2016-2019. Various smaller-scale research and expedition grants from Danish foundations (Carlsberg Foundation, Villum Foundation, Augustinusfonden and others).
Selected Publications:	Żyła, D., Solodovnikov, A. 2020. Multilocus phylogeny defines a new classification of Staphylininae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), a rove beetle group with high lineage diversity. Systematic Entomology. 45(1): 114-127. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12382 Salnitska, M., Solodovnikov, A. 2019. Rove beetles of the genus Quedius (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of Russia: a key to species and annotated catalogue. ZooKeys. 847: 1–100. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.847.34049 Brunke, A.J., Chatzimanolis, S., Metscher, B.D., Wolf-Schwenninger, K. & Solodovnikov, A. 2017. Dispersal of thermophilic beetles across the intercontinental Arctic forest belt during the early Eocene. Scientific Reports. 7:12972. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13207-4 Solodovnikov, A., Yue, Y., Tarasov, S. & Ren, D. 2013. Extinct and extant rove beetles meet in the matrix: Early Cretaceous fossils shed light on the evolution of a hyperdiverse insect lineage (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Cladistics, 29, 360-403. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00433.x Solodovnikov, A. 1998. Fauna of staphylinids (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of the North-Western Caucasus. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie [Entomological Review]. 77(2): 331-354.