Tamara Viktorovna Khodzher is a Chief Researcher and Professor in the Limnological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch. In the main geophysical observatory of Voeikov, (Saint-Petersburg), she defended her thesis in 1988. In 2005, she studied her doctoral thesis at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) in the specialty of meteorology, climatology, and agrometeorology. In 2013, she was awarded the title of professor in the specialty of meteorology, climatology, and agrometeorology. In 1993, she was elected to the position of head of the Laboratory of Hydrochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, and from 1996 to 2014, she was elected associate director with the duties of the head of the laboratory. From 2014 to the present, she is head of the Laboratory of Hydrochemistry and Atmosphere Chemistry at the Limnological Institute. She was a supervisor in the project of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia No. 0279-2021-0014, studying the role of atmospheric fallout on water and terrestrial ecosystems of the Lake Baikal basin, and the identification of sources of air pollution from 2021 to 2025. She was awarded the title of Chevalier of the Order of Academic Palms in 2016 (award of the Republic of France) for research into the chemical composition of ice in Antarctica. In 2019, she was awarded the Russian Government Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland of the Second Degree.