Dr. Vladimir S. Mukhanov Born 25 April 1968, Donetsk, USSR Graduated from Simferopol State University in 1993., M.Sc. in Hydrobiology: "Ethology and the fine scale population structure in the Far-Eastern crabs Chionoecetes opilio (snow crab), C. bairdi (Tanner crab), and Paralithodes camtschatica (king crab)". PhD defense in 2007. Thesis title: "Heat dissipation by marine pico- and femtoplankton." Current positions: 1. Head of Department of Plankton, Leading Scientist at A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (IBSS), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Sevastopol, Russia. 2. Leading Scientist at Laboratory of Marine Ecosystems, Institute for Advanced Research Sevastopol State University, Sevastopol, Russia. Fields of scientific interest and expertise: aquatic microbial ecology; viral ecology; biological microcalorimetry and thermodynamics; microplankton bioenergetics and trophodynamics; microbial and viral loops; energy flows in aquatic ecosystems; photoprotection ecophysiology.