Nekoval Svetlana Nikolaevna has received higher education as a scientist–agronomist. She graduated from the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Kuban State Agrarian University named after.T. Trubilin” with a degree in Plant Protection, and has a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences. She is the head at the «Laboratory of biorational plant protection products and technologies for ecologized, resource-saving and organic agriculture» at the Federal Research Center of Biological Plant Protection. Her research interests are as follows: biology, nematology, plant protection, genetics, selection, molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, and biotechnology. Svetlana Nikolaevna Nekoval is the author and co-author of two monographs, an educational and methodological manual, thirty-four databases on the genetic collection of tomatoes, one patent for a utility model, and forty-four scientific articles; the total number of all publications is 128. She is also a popularizer of science, an active participant and organizer of regional, national, and international conferences.