Anastasia B. Stepanova
Associate professor, PhD
ab_stepanova@rambler.ru
EDUCATION
1998
1992–1997
1985–1992
Degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences (Ph.D.)
Topic of PhD thesis ‘Zooplankton of the Inner Lakes of the Valaam
Archipelago and the Adjacent Water Area of Lake Ladoga’
Limnology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, post-graduate
training
St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences,
Department of Hydrobiology and Ichtiology
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
2003–present
1999–2003
1997–1999
Associate professor, Department of Applied Ecology (Faculty of
Ecology and Physics of Natural Environment, Russian State
Hydrometeorological University)
Researcher, Ecological Safety Centre of the Russian Academy of
Sciences
Researcher, Limnology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciencies
(laboratory of hydrobiology)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
 Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Ecology and Physics of the Natural
Environment (Russian State Hydrometeorological University), member of the state
examination boards of the Faculty;
 Grant coordinator of the Scientific and Information-Methodological Centre ‘BASIS’ of
the Russian Ministry of Education and of the federal target programme ‘Integration of
Science and Higher Education in Russia’;
 Extensive teaching experience: lecture courses for university students (‘General
ecology’, ‘Population dynamics under anthropogenic pressure’, ‘Evolutionary ecology’,
‘Methods of field ecological investigations’; 16 MA in geoecology - scientific adviser;
 Leader of field student practice at the Valaam Archipelago ( Lake Ladoga) since 1998;
 Extensive field experience, including work in protected areas (Kandalaksha biosphere
reserve, Solovetskii historical-architectural and nature museum-reserve, Syaberskii
nature reserve (zakaznik), ‘Valaam Archipelago’ nature park) and Ladoga Lake
expedition since 1995.
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
 Limnology; lake and catchments as a system; carbon cycle in lakes, fresh water indexes;
 Zooplankton, community structure, biodiversity St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists;
 System ecology
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
More than 40 articles and other publications
MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
 St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists
 Hydrobiological Society of Russian Academy of Sciences
 Russian Geographical Society