Igor is a PhD student at the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen. His project, "Aleocharinae rove beetles of New Zealand: development of the accelerated workflow to study "dark taxa" in poorly known biodiversity hotspots", supervised by Alexey Solodovnikov (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Richard Leschen (Auckland, New Zealand), is focused on systematics, phylogenetics, biogeography and biodiversity of the subfamily Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of New Zealand. There are nearly 170 species placed in 65 genera with ca. 140 species endemic for the region.
Igor is from the Republic of Belarus where he completed his MSc in Zoology at the Brest State University. He has focused on beetles since childhood. At the university he studied biodiversity and ecology of the Staphylinidae of Brest region in Belarus. Igor took part in several entomological expeditions in Crimea mountain and Carpathians. Before joining BIG4, he was teaching biology and chemistry at the secondary school and worked as a biologist at the national nature reserve "Vygonoschanskoe".
Igor is from the Republic of Belarus where he completed his MSc in Zoology at the Brest State University. He has focused on beetles since childhood. At the university he studied biodiversity and ecology of the Staphylinidae of Brest region in Belarus. Igor took part in several entomological expeditions in Crimea mountain and Carpathians. Before joining BIG4, he was teaching biology and chemistry at the secondary school and worked as a biologist at the national nature reserve "Vygonoschanskoe".
Read more about the project: "Aleocharinae rove beetles of New Zealand: development of the accelerated workflow to study "dark taxa" in poorly known biodiversity hotspots"