DATE OF BIRTH: March 19, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH: Moscow
MARITAL STATUS: Married

WORK ADDRESS
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS
119071 Moscow, Leninsky Prospect, 33
Phone: +7 495 1359885
E-mail: shchipa@mail.ru

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor

POSITIONS HELD
Chief Researcher

RESEARCH INTERESTS
• small mammals
• population biology

VISITING SCHOLAR
Courses for zoologists of the medical system at the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND GRANTS
1992 – Award For Biodiversity Studies of Tarija. Governement of the Province Tarija (Bolivia)
2000 – Winner of the Russian Fund for the Promotion of Patriotic Science (Outstanding Scientists)

TRAINING OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL
Head of 5 PhD theses

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Russian Teriological Society
2005 - Coordinator of the Russian part of the ISACC (International Sorex araneus Cytogenetic Committee)

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS OF JOURNALS
Member of the Editorial Board of “Biology Bulletin” and “University Proceedings. Volga region. Natural Sciences”

INVITED AND PLENARY REPORTS AT CONFERENCES
Shchipanov N. Ecological and behavioural studies of shrews in Russia. Past decade. International Colloquium Biology of Soricidae IV, Poznan, Poland, September 11-14, 2016
Shchipanov N.A., Pavlova S.V. Option “self-isolation” with chromosomal speciation. Common shrew. Current issues of modern zoology and ecology of animals. Penza. 15 -18 November 2016
Shchipanov N. Population density. What it depends on? 24th Annual Meeting of the International Hamster Workshop. October 1-5, 2017, Uglich, Russia

TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS
Over 100

MAIN PUBLICATIONS
1. Shchipanov N.A. The functional structure of the population and species diversity. Small mammals. Aspects of biodiversity. Collection of works of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press Ltd., 2016, no. 54, part 2, pp. 478-513
2. Shchipanov N.A., Pavlova S.V. Density-dependent processes determine the distribution of chromosomal races of the common shrew Sorex araneus (Lipotyphla, Mammalia). Mammal Research, 2017, no. 62, pp. 267-282
3. Shchipanov N.A., Sycheva V.B., Tumasyan P.A. Morphometric distances and population structuring in the common shrew Sorex araneus L. (Lipotyphla: Soricidae). Biology Bulletin, 2016, no. 43 (5), pp. 437-449
4. Shchipanov N.A., Pavlova S.V. Evolutionary and taxonomic differentiation of shrew species in the “araneus” group of the genus Sorex. 2. Subdivision within the common shrew. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2016, no. 95(3), pp. 353-365 [In Russian, with English summary]
5. Shchipanov N.A., Pavlova S.V. Multi-level subdivision in the species group “araneus” of the genus Sorex. 1. Chromosomal differentiation. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2016, no. 95(2), pp. 216-233 [In Russian, with English summary]
6. Pavlova S.V., Shchipanov N.A. A hybrid zone between the Kirillov and Petchora chromosomal races of the common shrew (Sorex araneus L., 1758) in northeastern European Russia. Preliminary description. Acta Theriologica, 2014, no. 59(3), pp. 415-426
7. Polly P.D., Polyakov A.V., Ilyashenko V.B., Onischenko S.S., White T.A., Shchipanov N.A., Bulatova N.S., Pavlova S.V., Borodin P.M., Searle J.B. Phenotypic variation across chromosomal hybrid zones of the common shrew (Sorex araneus) indicates reduced gene flow. PLoS ONE, 2013, no. 8(7), e67455
8. Shchipanov N.A., Pavlova S.V. Contact zones and ranges of chromosomal races of the common shrew, Sorex araneus, in north-eastern European Russia. Folia Zoologica, no. 62(1), pp. 24-35
9. Tumasyan P.A., Shchipanov N.A. Significance of the smell of a conspecific for the spatial distribution of the common shrew Sorex araneus L. Biology Bulletin, 2013, no. 40(3), pp. 329-336