2009-present
Natural History Museum, London, UK
Sackler’s Biodiversity Imaging Lab, Manager
2006-present
Natural History Museum, London, UK
Research Assistant to the Keeper of Entomology
2004-2005
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
NSF Research Fellow
2004-2007
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
Research Associate
2003-2004
Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, VA, USA
NSF Research Fellow
1999-2003
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
1990-2009
Paleontological Institute of Russian academy Science (RAS), Moscow, Russia
Investigator-Junior Researcher-Researcher-Senior Researcher
Ph.D. in Biology, 1998, Paleontological Institute of Russian academy of Sciences, Moscow.
Dissertation: “Cretaceous fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)”
M.Sc. in Biology, 1990, Leningrad (now St.-Petersburg) State University, Department of Entomology.
Thesis: “Fungus gnats (Diptera, Sciaroidea) of Lena River basin”