Head, Laboratory of Contextual Anthropology, Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences

Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Hist. (2002, Institute of Archaeology, RAS); Cand. Biol. (1988, Institute/Museum of Anthropology, Moscow State University); Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University (1983). Staff member of the Institute/Museum of Anthropology, Moscow State University (1983–1990); since 1990 on permanent staff of the Institute of Archaeology, RAS. Taught at the History Faculty, Moscow State Pedagogical University (since 2004). Member of the European Association of Archaeologists, Corresponding Member of German Archaeological Institute. Editorial board member for KSIA (Brief Reports of the Archaeology Institute), Advisory board member for Vestnik arkheologii, antropologii i etnografii and Narody i religii Evrazii. Scholarly interests: historical ecology of humans, paleodietological and bioarchaeological reconstructions through anthropological data, paleodemography.