Dr. Sci. (Biology), Professor (Yakutsk, Russia).

Research interests: introduction of the wild flora plants in Yakutia.

PhD thesis: Wild plants (1992).

Doctoral dissertation: Biological diversity of the flora in Yakutia as a source for plant introduction (1996).

Profile:

2012 - present – Leading Researcher, Yakut Botanical Garden, Institute for Biological Problems of Cryoliothozone SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia.

2003-2011 – Director, Deputy Director of the Botanical Garden at the North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU), Yakutsk, Russia.

1997 – Professor, Department of Botany, Yakut State University, Yakutsk, Russia.

1979-1997 – Laboratory Assistant, Senior Laboratory Assistant, Junior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Head of the Laboratory, Yakut Botanical Garden, Institute of Biology, Yakutsk, Russia.

1975-1978 – Postgraduate Student, Central Siberian Botanical Garden of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia.

1974-1975 – Laboratory Assistant, Yakut Research Institute of Agriculture, Yakutsk, Russia.

Nadezhda S. Danilova has developed a method for an assessment of the introduction resistance of the local plants. This method allows to obtain objective criteria that summarize the nature of the interaction of local plants with a new habitat.

She was the first to analyze the biological diversity of the flora in Yakutia as a source of introduction, summarize the results of a long-term introduction experiment, and evaluate the genetic potential of introduced plants belonging to various subdivisions of the vegetation cover in Yakutia.

Author of more than 200 scientific works, 7 teaching aids and 8 recommendations for landscaping the settlements of Yakutia.

Awards:

• Honored Veteran of the SB RAS.
• Certificate of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Membership: Council of Botanical Gardens of Russia.