Krutovsky Konstantin Valerievich

Krutovsky Konstantin Valerievich, born 16 August, 1957 in the city of ..., Soviet Union (since 1992 – Russia). Graduated from Samara State University, Faculty of Chemistry and Biology, Department of Genetics and Embriology (at the present time – Department of Zoology, Genetics, and General Ecology), with a specialty in Biology, and qualification Biologist, Teacher of Biology and Chemistry, in the city of Samara, Samara Oblast, Soviet Union (1979). Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD) in Genetics (1984). PhD thesis: "Otbor Protiv Indutsirovannykh Mutatsiy Allozimnykh Lokusov Drosophila melanogaster" (Selection Against Induced Mutations of Allozime Locuses of Drosophila melanogaster), Moscow, N. I. Vavilov Inst. of General Genetics, Rus. Acad. Sci., 1983 (in Russian). Expert in forest genetics and genomics. Professor for the Buesgen Institute Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, the University of Göttingen, Germany. Adjunct Professor in Forest Genomics, Population Genetics, and Conservation Genetics for the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management at Texas A&M University, USA. Leading Research Scientist for N. I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, in the city of Moscow, Russia. Scientific Director for the Genome Research and Education Center, Siberian Federal University, in the city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Scientific coordinator of the Bachelor program on “Molecular Ecosystem Sciences” (BMES-792) at the University of Göttingen. Member of N. I. Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders, Moscow, Russia, Western Forest Genetics Association, USA, American Association for the Advancement of Science - AAAS, USA, the Conifer Translational Genomics Network, USA, the International Climate-Resilient Crop Genomics Consortium, the Alpine Forest Genomics Network. Member of the Editorial Boards for peer-reviewed scientific journals: «Khvoynye Borealnoy Zony» (Conifers of Boreal Zone), «Sibirskij Lesnoj Zurnal» (Sib. J. For. Sci.), «Genetika» (Rus. J. Genet.), «BMC Genomics». PI and CoPI on more than 20 forest genetics and genomics research projects. Awarded Medal of the All-Union Exhibition of the National Economy Achievements in Forest Genetics, Tree Improvement and Management, USSR (1987), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship Award, Germany (1992), the United States Department of Agriculture Secretary's Honor Award (2011). Advised 7 PhD and 14 MSc students. Author and co-author of more than 230 scientific publications, 10 book chapters.