PhD in Biological Sciences, Associate Professor (Courses taught: biology, microbiology, mycology, biotechnology, ecology, human ecology, life safety, technoecology, ecotoxicology, environmental monitoring); journalist (popular-science). Co-Chair of the Chytrid, Zygomycete, Downy Mildew, Slime Mould Specialist Group of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Leader and founder of NGO Ukrainian Ecological Society Membership in International Society for Fungal Conservation Membership in European Mycological Association President of International Congress on Systematics & Ecology of Myxomycetes 6 (2008, Ukraine, Crimea) Expeditions in temperate (Belgium, France, Poland, Ukraine, UK, USA), tropics (Brazil, Cuba, La Reunion, Maldives, Mexico, Seychelles), arid (Kazakhstan, Mexico) zones