Zlata S. Gershenson Leading Research Scientist, DSc   Department of Entomology and Collection Management, I.I.Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology 15 Bogdana Khmelnitskogo Street Kyiv, 01030 UKRAINE

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

Moths of the yponomeutoid complex (Microlepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea) of the World: taxonomy, phylogeny, systematics.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION

1964 — 1967. Postgraduate Course: Kiev Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Department of the General Entomology.

1957 — 1963. Kiev State University. Biological Faculty, Department of Invertebrate Zoology.

1946 — 1963. Primary & Secondary School, Kiev, Ukraine.

POSITIONS HELD

June 2000 — current time. I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kiev), Department of General and Applied Entomology, Leading Research Scientist.

May 1978 — May 2000. I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv), Department of General and Applied Entomology, Senior Research Scientist.

November 1967 — April 1978. I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv), Department of General and Applied Entomology, Junior Research Scientist.

February 1958 — October 1963. I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv), Assistant.

January 1957 — December 1957. I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv), seasonal worker.

MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, AWARDS, ETC.

Ukrainian Entomological Society, since 1968.

Specialized Scientific Council for the Scientific Degrees in entomology at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology (Kiev), since 2005. Member.

Scientific Council of the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, since 2005. Member

LANGUAGES

Ukrainian (mother tongue), English: not fluent conversation, translation and scientific writing); Other: Russian - fluent.

I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 2004-2019