Education

2017 MA degree in anthropology, Department of Anthropology, European University at St. Petersburg Advisor: Nikolai Vakhtin Representation of local identity in rural museums (Pinega district)

2013 PhD degree in linguistics, Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS Advisor: Valentin Vydrin Verb in the Guro language

2007-2010 Post-graduate studies in the Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS

2007 Specialist degree in Philology (cum laude) Department of Theoretical Linguistics, St. Petersburg State University Advisor: Valentin Vydrin TMA system of the Guro language

2006 Université de Haute Bretagne Rennes II (Breton language and ethnomusicology)

2002-2007 Graduate studies, Department of Theoretical Linguistics, St. Petersburg State University

Work

2010-to date Laboratory of Typological Studies, Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS (research fellow, secretary)

2008-2009 Promt (development of homonym disambiguation algorithms)

Fieldwork experience

2005-to date Ivory Coast (integral description of the Guro language: phonetics, grammar, dictionary; development of orthography, collection of texts)

June 2012, July 2013, July 2014 Russian Federation, Bashkortostan (Bashkir language)

June 2004, July 2005 Ukraine, Donetsk Region (Urumean language)

Languages

Russian (native); English, French (fluent); Polish (intermediate), Norwegian (basic).

Research interests

Аfrican studies, Mande languages, Turkic languages, linguistic typology, morphology, lexicography; memory studies; ethnomusicology, traditional culture of Northern Russia and West Africa.