
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  Kiev University, 1985: 376 p.+ 93 p. of figures (in Russian) (unpublished).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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