written by Lyubov Burlakova
This fall, the Great Lakes Center appointed Olesia Makhutova (Kormilets) to be our new research scientist. Olesia will work on the U.S. EPA funded project “Great Lakes Long-Term Biological Monitoring Program 2022- 2028.”
Olesia has been engaged in aquatic ecology research for over 20 years. She graduated with honors from the Krasnoyarsk State University in 2003, received Candidate of Sciences degree (Ph.D.) at the Institute of Biology of Inland Waters, and in 2019, she defended the Doctor of Sciences degree (D. Sc.) at Siberian Federal University. Before coming to Great Lakes Center, Olesia was a Professor at Siberian Federal University and a Leading Researcher in the Laboratory of Experimental Hydroecology (Institute of Biophysics, Federal Research Center “Krasnoyarsk Science Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences”). Olesia studied trophic interactions in benthic and planktonic food webs of different aquatic ecosystems in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and USA, and is an internationally recognized expert in environmental biochemistry of lipids of algae and aquatic animals. Olesia was the top and best qualified candidate in our job search for Project Coordinator-Research Scientist position (January – March 2023) owing to her extensive number of publications, high h-index (22) and number of citations (1,383) on Web of Science, great experience in grant, report, and paper writing, grant administration (she was a recipient of 20+ grants), and experience in benthic ecology. In the Great Lakes Center, Olesia will be responsible for the Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative extensive surveys and data analysis on all Great Lakes. Olesia will also be involved in remote sensing and image processing, as well as in grant management.
We’re glad to have you on board, Olesia!
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