International Commission
on Zoological Nomenclature

Svetlana’s research focuses on Devonian and Carboniferous ammonoids (Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea) from all over the world, but particularly from the Urals, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Siberia. This includes their taxonomy, nomenclature, palaeobiology, biostratigraphy, and palaeogeography. Ammonoids are among the best geochronological indicators, and their distribution across major geochronological boundaries helps dating and correlating these levels across the world. Svetlana is a voting member of the International Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy (SCCS) of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and in this capacity studied ammonoids from many potential global boundary stratotype candidate sections. A major aspect of her research is examination of historical ammonoid collections, primarily in the Natural History Museum, London. She is a member of the Moscow Society of Nature Explorers, Yorkshire Geological Society, and the History of Geology Group of the Geological Society of London.

Her funding has included RAS, RFBR, DAAD, NSF, and NHM grants to study various aspects of ammonoid taxonomy and palaeobiology and for field research in various parts of the world. She has collected ammonoids and studied sections in the Urals, Siberia, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Australia, Canada, China, France, Portugal, Spain, UK, USA, and every year goes on expeditions.

Svetlana has published between 60 and 70 scientific papers, and three monographs, and is currently working on a new book. She is currently responsible for maintaining and updating the Palaeozoic ammonoid database GONIAT.

She won the prestigious Hans Rausing Award for Paleontology in 2005 and 2008 for her monographs “Devonian ammonoids. Clymeniids. IV. Suborder Clymeniina” in Trudy Paleontologicheskogo instituta, Ross. Akad. Nauk, and “The Carboniferous ammonoids from the Gilbertson collection described by John Phillips” in Palaeontographical Society Monographs.

Summary of Research & Education:

Svetlana received her Ph.D. in Moscow, from the Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. While completing her Ph.D. she was employed as a researcher at the Palaeontological Institute to study Carboniferous ammonoids. After two years on that job she went on a post-doctoral fellowship to Tubingen, Germany, where she worked with Prof. J. Kullmann, and then returned to Moscow, where she expanded her research to the Devonian ammonoids and was promoted to the position of Senior Researcher. From 2005 she works for ICZN Secretariat as a Zoologist and the BZN Scientific Editor.

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