Education: Candidate of Biological Sciences, specialising in biotechnology (including bionanotechnology) since 2010.Place of work: Senior Researcher at the G. K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IBPM RAS), which is a separate division of the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science, the Federal Research Centre Pushchino Scientific Centre for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Area of specialisation: amplicon analysis of dust particles, plant and soil rhizoplanes with assessment of the taxonomic and metabolic biodiversity of microorganisms, environmental biotechnology, development of biological products for environmental remediation, genetics and genomics of hydrocarbon-degrading microorganisms.