Cartographer with strong experience in shell scripting, GIS, data analysis and visualization.
Author of 160+ journal articles; 90+ papers in conference proceedings; 50+ presentations/posters.
Reviewer of 600+ manuscripts, WoS ID R-8828-2018: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/rid/R-8828-2018
Editorial Board Member: 1) Front. Environ. Sci.; 2) Front. Mar. Sci.; 3) J. Appl. Eng. Sci.; 4) Acta Univ. Lodz. Folia Geogr. Phys.; 5) CEJGSD.
Technical Skills: GMT scripting toolset, GRASS GIS, QGIS, ArcGIS, MapInfo. Image processing: GRASS GIS, R, Erdas Imagine, ILWIS, ENVI, Idrisi. Programming: Python, R, Octave/MATLAB, Unix utilities, shell/bash scripts, awk, grep. Markup languages: TeX (strong user of LaTeX). Statistical data analysis: Python, R, SPSS, Gretl, Gnuplot. Data sharing: GitHub.
Professional activities: Attendee of numerous (50+) scientific events on Earth Sciences/Education/IT: conferences, workshops, meet-ups, training courses. Enthusiast of cartography, mapping, data science, Earth observation in RS and GIS applications.
Education: MSc (2011) in GIS and Earth Observation jointly awarded from the University of Southampton (UK), University of Twente (Netherlands), University of Warsaw (Poland) and Lund University (Sweden) with a fieldwork on Crete Island (Greece). Multiple research stays at European universities. Additional studies at: University of Vienna (Austria), University of Lapland (Finland), Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary), University of Tartu (Estonia), Matej Bel University (Slovakia), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), OUC, NTU (China), Ege University (Turkey), TU Dresden (Germany), Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic). BSs in Geography and Cartography: Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2004 (Summa Cum Laude). University Gold Medal for Academic Excellence. Participation in the ANT/XXIII-4 Antarctic expedition by AWI, Germany (R/V "Polarstern"), 2006: South Pacific Ocean, Amundsen Sea, Bellingshausen Sea.
Research foci: Data analysis, cartography, geoinformatics, modelling, mapping, data visualization, algorithms, applied programming, machine learning, ocean/marine studies, statistical analysis, GIS, remote sensing, satellite image processing, environmental monitoring.
Fellowships: 20+ research grants awarded by: DAAD, AWI (Germany), ESKAS (Switzerland), Erasmus Mundus (EU Committee), ÖAD (Austria), CIMO (Finland), HSB (Hungary), ESF (EU), WBI (Belgium), Belgian Science Policy Office, Federal Science Policy (BELSPO), TÜBİTAK (Turkey), MOE Taiwan (China), SAIA (Slovakia), CSC/SOA Marine Scholarship (China), Russian scholarships, travel grants: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands, 2013), Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de l‘Environnement Claude Nicolas Ledoux (France, 2014).
Languages (certificates): English (IELTS 7.5, 2011), Russian (native), Chinese (汉语 水平考试五级HSK-5, C1 [2.500 characters 简体字], 2017), German (ÖSD C2, 2006), French (DALF C1, 2008), Spanish (DELE-B1, 2008), Italian (CILS-B1, 2007).
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