WORK ADDRESS
Penza State University
40 Krasnaya St., 440026, Penza
E-mail: na_leonova@mail.ru

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Doctor of biological sciences, associate professor

POSITIONS HELD
Associate professor of the general biology and biochemistry sub-department, Penza State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Population biology
• Plant ecology
• Structural and functional organization of forest ecosystems
• Historical ecology
• Phytocenology

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND GRANTS
2016: Grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (“Project of Organizing Russian (with International Participation) Science School-Conference ‘Current Concepts in Biosystems Ecology and Their Role in Solving Problems of Nature Preservation and Management’ dedicated to 115th anniversary of A.A. Uranov”)
2014-2016: Grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (‘Relict Floral-Coenotic Complexes in Samara, Penza, Ulyanovsk Regions and the Republic of Mordovia’)
2016-2018: Grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (‘Model Reconstruction of Potential Forest Cover of the Russian Plain, North Caucasus and the Urals in Current Climatic Conditions’)
2013: Grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (‘Research Project for Organizing the International Science Conference ‘Forest Steppe of the East Europe: Structure, Dynamics and Preservation’ Dedicated to 140th Sprygin Anniversary’)

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Russian Botanical Society
Russian Geographical Society
Society of Plant Physiologists

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS OF JOURNALS
• "University proceedings. Volga region. Natural sciences"
• "Russian Journal of Ecosystem Ecology"

PUBLICATIONS
• ORCID ID 0000-0001-9508-5008
• Web of Science Researcher ID G-8090-2014
• SCOPUS ID 7005749743
• Elibrary.ru AuthorID 659591