Tatjana G. Shibaeva graduated from the Biology Department of Petrozavodsk State University in 1992 and began working at the Institute of Biology of the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (KarRC RAS). In 1993–1997, she completed her postgraduate training in the specialty “plant physiology” at the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 2000 to 2005, she worked as the scientific secretary of the Institute of Biology of the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is currently a leading researcher in the Laboratory of Plant Ecophysiology Institute of Biology and the Department of Multidisciplinary Scientific Research (KarRC RAS). Her research interests are plant stress; temperature; photoperiods; light adaptation and tolerance.