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Larisa Khanina

Larisa Khanina

ORCID 0000-0002-8937-5938

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HOME INSTITUTION: Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Postal Address: 1, Vitkevich Street, 142290, Pushchino, Russia
Tel.: +7 9166232034
E-mail: khanina.larisa@gmail.com

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  • 2008 - Associate Professor
  • 1997 - Ph.D (Ecology)
  • 1982 - economist-cybernetitian, Moscow Institute of Management

APPOINTMENT:

  • 2016–till present - head of the Laboratory of Computational Ecology at the Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology – branch of Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
  • 1987 - Junior Research Associate, Research Fellow, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS;
  • 1997–till present - Associate Professor at the Department of System Ecology of the Education Centre of Soil Studies, Ecology and Nature Management at the Pushchino Institute of Natural Sciences;
  • 1993–1997 - lecturer at the Department of System Ecology of the Pushchino Institute of Natural Sciences.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • quantitative analysis of ecological data;
  • modelling in ecology;
  • ecoinformatics;
  • system ecology;
  • vegetation science;
  • forest ecology;
  • plant ecology;
  • biodiversity assessment.

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND GRANTS:

  • 2020–2022: grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (“Dynamics of ecosystem processes after local and mass windthrows in the broad-leaved forests”)
  • 2016: grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (“The study of the organization and dynamics of phytocenoses of volcanic habitats in Central Kamchatka by statistical ecology methods”)
  • 2013–2015: grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (“Assessing the biodiversity of forest vegetation on the basis of statistical modelling in the conditions of inhomogeneity and incompleteness of ecological data”)
  • 2013: RF Ministry of Education research agreement (‘Mathematical and imitation modelling of biodiversity assessment of forest vegetation, in accordance with international biodiversity indicators’)
  • 2012–2014: project with the support of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Ecosystem functions of ground vegetation cover in boreal forests of European Russia”
  • 2009–2011: COST action FP0804 “Forest management decision support systems (FORSYS)”
  • 2005–2006: grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (“Development of the system of ecological-coenotic groups of vascular plants in the forest zone of European Russia using multi-dimensional statistics”)

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES:

  • International Association of Vegetation Science, IAVS;
  • Russian Botanical Society;
  • European Landuse Institute, ELI.

INVITED AND PLENARY REPORTS AT CONFERENCES:

  • 2018 - Ekaterinburg (Russia). The Fourth International Scientific Conference Ecology and Geography of Plants and Plant Communities Plenary lecture: "Anthropogenic transformation of vegetation cover and restoration succession on abandoned agricultural lands (on the example of South Moscow region)";
  • 2018 – St. Petersburg (Russia). International School of Young Scientific Researchers. Invited guest lecture "Estimates of succession status and diversity of vegetation cover: quantitative methods and model approach";
  • 2014 – Bryansk (Russia). International scientific conference "East European and North Asian Vegetation". Plenary lecture "Comparative assessment of plant species diversity on the basis of statistical modelling";
  • 2011 - Pushchino (Russia). 15th Internaional School-Conference of Young Scientists "Biology – Science of the 21st century". Invited guest lecture "Biological diversity and its dynamics: methods and techniques of assessment";
  • 2009 - Edinburgh (UK). Workshop on Nitrogen Deposition, Critical Loads and Biodiversity. WG report "Ecosystem and plant species diversity prognosis at the local level under the global changes";
  • 2007 - Shenyang (China), The International Symposium on Ecological Conservation and Sustainable Development of Forest Resources in Northeast Asia. Plenary lecture "Forecasting dynamics of forest ground vegetation diversity under different forest management regimes";
  • 2006 - St. Petersburg, Russia 3rd International Symposium “EU-Russia prospects for cooperation in Biotechnology in the Seventh Framework Programme”. Invited lecture "Forest Biodiversity Modelling: methodology and applications for sustainable management systems".

TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS: 130
Selected publications