Dr. Olga Vladimirovna Voitsekhovskaja is the head of the Laboratory of Ecological and Molecular Physiology, Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She graduated from the
Faculty of Biology and Soils of the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry
of Plants, St. Petersburg State University, and completed postgraduate study at the
University of Göttingen (Germany). Her research interests include the physiology
and biochemistry of plants, botany, molecular biology, etc.