Specialist in the field of virus ecology and the study of natural focal infections, PhD in Biology, PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after G.P. Somov of Rospotrebnadzor (Vladivostok, Russia), Head of the Department of Epidemiology, Microbiology and Parasitology with International Scientific and Educational Center for Biological Safety at the Institute of Medicine and Life Sciences of the Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia). Main scientific results: an approach to HIV-1 serotyping based on V3-mimicking peptides and multidimensional statistical analysis has been developed; the ways of evolution of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in ecosystems of Northern Eurasia have been revealed; the causes of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014 were investigated and the regionalization of the African natural focal province in relation to filovirus fevers was carried out.; a new expanded protocol for ecological and virological monitoring has been developed and implemented, including field studies of viruses of a wide range of potential hosts (from animals to plants), bacteriological and parasitological methods, landscape and system information analysis of the spatial and temporal structure of natural foci, and molecular genetic technologies.; an analytical generalization of the history of the development of phyto