Name in full : Valeriy Alexeyevich KORNYEYEV (Valery KORNEYEV)
Date of birth: February 13, 1956
Place of birth: Novograd-Volynski, Zhitomir reg., UKRAINE
Nationality: Ukrainian
Citizenship: Ukraine
Country of permanent residence: Ukraine
Residence address and telephone number: Yakira str. 19a, kv. 10; SU 254119, Kiev-119 UKRAINE (USSR) (044)2131752
Business address and telephone number: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Biogeography, B. Khmelnitski str. 15 UA 252601, Kiev-1 UKRAINE.
FAX: [380] (44) 224-1569
E-Mail: korval@entom.freenet.kiev.ua .
Married. Have a son.
Education
1978 - 1982. Postgraduate Course: Kiev State University, Division of Invertebrate Zoology.
1973 - 1978. Kiev State University, Biological Faculty, Dept. of Zoology and Botany, Department of Invertebrate Zoology (Honors Diploma).
1963 - 1973. Primary & Secondary School, Novograd-Volynski, Ukraine
(Honors Certificate and Golden Medal).
Highest Degree: Candidate of Sciences (=Ph.D.)
Dissertation:
Tephritid flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of the Middle Dnieper Territory (with a review of classifications of the family worldwide). Kiev University, 1985: 376 p.+ 93 p. of figures (in Russian) (unpublished). Cand. Sci. October 1985.
Number of Published Papers: 84.
Positions Held:
1989 - current time. I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine (Kiev), Lab. of Biogeography, Research Scientist, since 1996 Senior Research Scientis.
1986 - 1989. All-Union Institute of Biocontrol for Plant Protection, Chisinau (Kishinev), Lab. of Weed Biocontrol. Senior Research Scientist.
1984 - 1986. Idem. Junior Research Scientist.
1978 - 1984. Kiev State University, Biological Faculty, Lab. of Ecology, Junior Research Scientist.
Grants and Fellowships:
2001 (September-October) - Ernest Mayr Fund, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma., USA, Travel Grant.
2001 (May-August) - Curtis Sabrosky Fund, US National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., Visitor Grant.
2000 (November-December) - Musèum d'Histoire Naturelle Genéve, Visitor Grant.
1999 (October-December) - German Service of Academician Exchange (Deutscher Academischer Austauschdienst), Visitor Grant for Foreign Scientists (Studienaufenthalte ausländischer Wissenschaftler), Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
1994-1996 (January-December)
ISF Research Grant.
1995 (August) - Naturhistorisches Museum Wien Visitor Grant.
1994 (January) - ISF Research Stipend.
1993 (January) - Smithsonian Institution Visitor Grant.
1993 (September) - ISF Individual Research Grant.
Current work deals with study of the shore entomofauna in North Western part of the Black Sea Basin and the fauna of Ukrainian fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae).
Research interests:
Systematic of Diptera (Palaearctic Tephritidae and Platystomatidae: taxonomy, faunae, biology. Suprageneric taxonomy of Tephritidae and Tephritoidea (Worldwide). Faunistics of several Ukrainian Acalyptrate Diptera. Insects associated with asteraceous and scrophulariaceous wild and weed plants, and with leafy spurges; agents for biocontrol of weeds.
Skills in foreign languages: English: fluent conversation, translation and scientific writing; German: fair scientific translation. Other: Russian-- fluent. Polish, Czech -- fair.
Write to me:
korval@entom.freenet.kiev.ua
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