Dr. Sci (Biology), Professor (Ulan-Ude, Russia).

Director, Institute of General and Experimental Biology of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, Ulan-Ude, Russia.

Research interests: development of theoretical foundations of technology for the creation of environmentally safe fertilizer mixtures and complex fertilizers of prolonged action from Trans-Baikal local raw materials, their comprehensive ecological and agrochemical assessment.

PhD thesis: Agrochemical characteristics of the chestnut soils in the suburban area of Ulan-Ude and improvement of the mineral nutrition of irrigated cabbage (1986).

Doctoral dissertation: Alluvial soils of the Selenga River Basin and agrochemical bases for increasing their fertility (1995).

Profile:

2012-present — Director, Institute of General and Experimental Biology SB RAS, Ulan-Ude, Russia.

1996-2002 — Head of the Department of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Buryat State Agricultural Academy named after V.R. Filippov, Ulan-Ude, Russia.

1977-present — Institute of General and Experimental Biology SB RAS, Ulan-Ude, Russia.

Awards and Honors:

Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation and Buryatia, Honored Scientist of the Republic of Buryatia, Honorary Scientist of Science, Education and Culture of Mongolia, Academician of the Mongolian National Academy of Sciences.

D.N. Pryanishnikov Award (2011) for a series of works "Soil fertility, plant nutrition and the use of fertilizers in cryoarid conditions".

State Prize of the Republic of Buryatia in the field of science and technology.