Education
2008 - 2012
Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
PhD in Biological Sciences, Supervisor: Nicolas Schtickzelle
PhD Thesis: Dealing with biological complexity in Population Viability Analysis: lessons from two endangered butterfly species
PhD Scholarship from FRIA (Fonds pour la recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture)
2006 - 2008
Wageningen University
(The Netherlands)
MSc in Environmental Sciences
MATRA Scholarship for Eastern-European countries
2002 - 2006
National Agricultural University of Ukraine
BSc in Ecology and Environmental Protection
Experience
2020 - present
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Senior scientist
Co-leader of Population Dynamics Group (with Stephanie Kramer-Schadt)
2013 - 2014
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), sDiv
Postdoctoral researcher
Stability of freshwater community dynamics and ecosystem functioning under stressors.
Advisors: Volker Grimm, Frederik DeLaender & Paul van den Brink
sDiv grant for an individual postdoc
2014 - 2020*
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Postdoctoral researcher
Stability of populations and communities.
Advisor: Stephanie Kramer-Schadt
2013
Hedmark University College
(Norway)
Postdoctoral researcher
Drivers of vole population cycles investigated with an individual-based model.
Advisors: Harry Peter Andreassen & Rolf Anker Ims
*Total time for parental care sums up to 22 full time months, taken during 2019-2022.
Academic activities
Editorial and Reviewing activities
2026 - present
Associate editor for Journal of Animal Ecology
2016 - 2022
Associate editor for Scientific Reports
2017
Invited guest editor for Ecological Modelling
2026 - present
External Scientific Advisory Committee Member for IMEDEA, Spain
Reviewer for Grant proposals
including Agence National de la Recherche (ANR), Deutsche Forschungsgemainschaft (DFG), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), National Science Centre Poland (OSF), PhD SENSE programme, sDiv workshops, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
PhD committee member
for PhD defences of Dr. Femke Batsleer (Ghent University, 2022), Dr. Niels Svendsen (Université Catholique de Louvain, 2024) and Dr. Marie-Charlotte Gielen (Université Catholique de Louvain, 2025)
2022 - 2023
Member of the worker’s council at the IZW