WORK ADDRESS
Lomonosov Moscow State University
119991 Moscow, Leninskiye Gory, 1
E-mail: yurimazei@mail.ru

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Doctor of biological sciences, professor

POSITIONS HELD
Vice-rector, professor, Department of Hydrobiology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Structural and functional organization of biological communities at different scales of space-time
• Paleoreconstruction of ecosystem dynamics
• Ecology and systematics of free-living testate amoebae, Ciliophora and heterotrophic flagellates
• Ecology of communities of soil animals, marine zoobenthos, freshwater zooplankton

VISITING SCHOLAR
05.2017: University of York, UK, supported by the Royal Society grant (subject: Understanding community ecology rules: the focus from testate amoebae and related organisms)
07.2014 – 08.2014: Natural History Museum, London, UK, supported by the grant of the President of the Russian Federation (Morphology and systematics of the testate amoebae genus Difflugia: critical analysis of testate amoebae collections in the Natural History Museum)
09.2012: University of Padua, Italy, supported by the Universita degli studi di Padova grant (subject: New approaches in the teaching of zoology in universities: comparing Italian and Russian traditions and new findings)
04.2012: Annamalai University, Tamil-Nadu, India, supported by the RFBR grant (subject: Biodiversity of benthic faunal assemblages along the salinity gradients: patterns in arctic (the White Sea) and tropical (the Bay of Bengal) estuaries)
11.2011: University of Neuchȃtel, Switzerland, supported by the Scientific &Technological Cooperation Programme Switzerland-Russia grant (subject: Protist diversity and palaeoecological reconstruction of the Petchora Biosphere reserve)
09.2011: Annamalai University, Tamil-Nadu, India, supported by the RFBR grant (subject: Biodiversity of benthic faunal assemblages along the salinity gradients: patterns in arctic (the White Sea) and tropical (the Bay of Bengal) estuaries)
08.2010: Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, supported by the RFBR grant (subject: Species diversity and protist community structure: role of scale, size and ecological characteristics of organisms)
04.2010: Institute of Hydrobiology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan-city, supported by the RFBR grant (subject: Biodiversity patterns of protozoa in large rivers: testate amoebae and heterotrophic flagellates from the rivers of Yangtze and Volga)
02.2010: Natural History Museum, London, UK, supported by the Royal Society grant (subject: Morphology and systematics of the testate amoebae genus Difflugia: critical analysis of testate amoebae collections in the Natural History Museum)
10.2009: University of Padua, Italy, supported by grant of the Universita degli studi di Padova (subject: Studies on biodiversity and community structure of Protozoa (Flagellates, Testate Amoebae and Ciliates) in the karst caves and bog environments of Veneto region (North-Eastern Italy) and Middle-Volga Region (South-Western Russia): comparative investigations in the same biotopes from different geographical areas)
09.2009 – 10.2009: University of Neuchȃtel, Switzerland, supported by the Scientific &Technological Cooperation Programme Switzerland-Russia grant (subject: Biogeography and biodiversity of free-living microorganisms: a study of testate amoebae (Protozoa) as model organisms)
10.2008 – 11.2008: University of Padua, Italy, supported by the Universita degli studi di Padova grant (subject: Biodiversity of testate amoebae in Sphagnum bogs)
04.2008 – 05.2008: Ocean University of China, Qingdao-city, supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China grant (subject: Biodiversity and systematics of benthic marine ciliated protozoa)

ACADEMIC AWARDS
2011: Diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
2008: Medal and Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences for young scientists
2002: Prize of the Governor of the Penza region

TRAINING OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL
2017 – Komarov A.A., Candidate of Biological Sciences. “The structure of communities of soil testate amoebae of the Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve”
2015 – Babeshko K.V., Candidate of Biological Sciences. “Ecological preferences of Testacealobosea and their use for the reconstruction of the hydrological regime of wetlands in the Holocene”
2013 – Trulova A.S., Candidate of Biological Sciences. “Seasonal changes in the structure of communities of Testacea”
2012 – Kireev A.V., Candidate of Biological Sciences. “The ecomorphological characteristics of populations and the species structure of communities of Testacea and heterotrophic flagellates in some water bodies of the Volga region”
2011 – Blinokhvatova Yu.V. “Microscale spatial structure of soil Testacea communities”
2011 – Malysheva E.A., Candidate of Biological Sciences. “The structure of communities of testate amoebae in contact zones of heterogeneous biotopes”
2011 – Marfina O.V., Candidate of Biological Sciences. “The structure of communities of testate amoebae in the Baikal region”
2011 – Esaulov A.S., Candidate of Biological Sciences. “Morphology, systematics and ecology of mass and some poorly studied types of Ciliophora of Karyorelictea class from the White and Yellow Seas”
2010 – Belyakova O.I., Candidate of Biological Sciences. “The structure of communities of testate amoebae and heterotrophic flagellates in epiphytic and epilitic mosses and lichens”
2010 – Chernyshov V.A., Candidate of Biological Sciences. “Ecological and geographical patterns of the organization of communities of soil testate amoebae of Western Siberia”
2009 – Yembulaeva E.A., Candidate of Biological Sciences. “The structure of communities of soil protozoa in the forest-steppe of the Middle Volga region”
2007 – Bubnova O.A., Candidate of Biological Sciences. “The community structure of Testacealobosea at different scales of research”
2007 – Tsyganov A.N., Candidate of Biological Sciences. “Morphological variability, species composition and community structure of Testacealobosea”
2006 – Tikhonenkov D.V., Candidate of Biological Sciences. “The structure of communities of free-living heterotrophic flagellates”

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Russian Geographical Society
Moscow Society of Naturalists
All-Russian Protozoological Society at the RAS
All-Russian Hydrobiological Society at the RAS
All-Russian Society of Soil Zoologists at the RAS
International Society for Testate Amoebae Research

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS OF JOURNALS
• "University Proceedings.Volga Region. Natural Sciences"
• "Russian Journal of Ecosystem Ecology"
• "Nature conservation research"
• "Protistology"
• "Samara journal of science"

INVITED AND PLENARY REPORTS AT CONFERENCES
2016, Sao-Paolo (Brazil). VIII International Symposium on Testate Amoebae. Plenary lecture: Seasonal dynamics of testate amoeba communities
2014, Padua (Italy). XXX National Congress of the Italian Society of Protistology. Invited lecture: Macroscale distribution of protists: case study of testate amoebae in Western Siberia.
2014, Poznan (Poland). VII International Symposium on Testate Amoebae. Plenary lecture: Private life of Sphagnum samples: can we keep testate amoebae in a refrigerator?
2013, Vancouver (Canada). XVI International Congress of Protistology. Invited lecture: Biodiversity patterns at different spatial scales: A case study with Sphagnum- and soil-dwelling testate amoebae in taiga
2012, Xiamen (China). VI International Symposium on Testate Amoebae. Plenary lecture: Testate amoebae in boundaries: how do transitions between local communities look like?
2012, Rome (Italy). XXIX National Congress of the Italian Society of Protistology. Invited lecture: Testate amoebae communities in soils: from point to global scale.
2009, Montbéliard (France). V International Symposium on Testate Amoebae. Plenary lecture: Testate amoebae and landscapes: do tiny organisms reflect macro-environmental patterns? A case from forest-steppe region (Russia).
2007, Dehli (India). International Symposium on Ciliate Biology. Plenary lecture: Changes of psammophilous ciliate community structure during 16-th year period in the White Sea estuary
2006, Antwerp (Belgium). IV International Symposium on Testate Amoebae. Plenary lecture: Community structure of testate amoebae in Russian Sphagnum bogs at different scales.
2004, Sopot (Poland). International Conference “The role of biodiversity in simple, physically driven ecosystems with special focus on sandy sediments”. Invited lecture: Psammophilous ciliate community structure in the estuary: species composition patterns and mechanisms of formation.

PUBLICATIONS
• ORCID ID 0000-0002-5443-8919
• Web of Science Researcher ID B-5358-2013
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