2024 –  Visiting Fellow, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, UK 2015 – Leading Scientist, Part time. Plant Embryology and Reproductive Biology, Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 2022  Fulbright VS, Laboratory of Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics, University of Florida, USA2020 – 2022 Professor Associate  ITMO University, St. Petersburg. Head of Plant Genomics lab 2013 – 2020 Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics at St. Petersburg State University 2011 – 2012 Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, Institute Plant Molecular Science, UK2008 – 2011 Research Associate, IBERS University of Wales, UK 2006 - 2007 Research Associate Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois USA2000 – 2006 Postdoctoral Department Plant Developmental Genetics, University of Zurich1999  - 2000 Postdoctoral  Swedish University of Agricultural Sci., Uppsala, Sweden 1997 - 1999 Postdoctoral  Cell Biology and Plant Biotechnology of Victor Segalen University Bordeaux 2 France1996 - 1997 March Internship Plant Cytology Wageningen Agricultural  University 1994  Internship  Plant Anatomy and Cytology of Lublin UMCS University, Poland1993 – 1997 Research fellow Embryology Komarov Botanical Institute 1990 – 1993 PhD Plant Embryology Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences1983 – 1988 Student of St.Petersburg State University, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry