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
Career
June 2021 - Mar 2021
Maternity leave (100%)
2020 - present
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Senior scientist
Co-leader of Population Dynamics Group (with Stephanie Kramer-Schadt)
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
Maternity leave (35%)
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
Maternity leave (100%)
2016 - 2020
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Postdoctoral research fellow
Stability of populations and communities. Advisor: Stephanie Kramer-Schadt
2014 - 2016
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Postdoctoral research fellow
Drivers of mammalian distributions in Southeast Asia.
Advisors: Joerns Fickel, Andreas Wilting & Stephanie Kramer-Schadt
2013 - 2014
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), sDiv
Postdoctoral research fellow
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
2013
Hedmark University College
(Norway)
Postdoctoral research fellow
Drivers of vole population cycles investigated with an individual-based model. Advisors: Harry Peter Andreassen & Rolf Anker Ims
Professional activities
Organisation of meetings
2018 - 2019
Organiser of 2 Workshops of the working group sTraitChange, Synthesis Centre for Biodiversity Sciences (sDiv), Germany, 20 participants
2019
Co-organiser of the Wildlife Research and Conservation Conference, Berlin, Germany, over 250 participants
2016
Co-organiser of the session ‘Ecological models as tools to assess persistence of ecological systems in face of environmental pressures’, Ecosummit 2016, Montpellier (France), approx. 50 participants
Reviewing activities
2016 - present
Associate editor for Scientific Reports
2017
Invited guest editor for Ecological Modelling
2020 - present
Editor for Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Special Issue ‘Stability across spatial and temporal scales’
American Naturalist, Applied Entomology and Zoology, Biodiversity and Conservation, Biological Conservation, Conservation letters, Global Change Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Ecography, Ecological Applications, Ecology Letters, Ecological Modelling, Ecosystems, Environmental Modelling and Software, European Journal of Entomology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Landscape ecology, Mammalian Biology, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Oecologia, Oikos, PNAS, PLOS Biology, PlosOne, Scientifica, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Journal reviewing
Grant reviewing
Agence National de la Recherche (ANR), Deutsche Forschungsgemainschaft (DFG), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), PhD SENSE programme, sDiv workshops, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)