Dr I.O. Pestova

Dr I.O. Pestova,
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany,
Tereshchenkivska Street 2,
Kiev, MSP-1, 252601,
Ukraine.
E-mail: pestova@san.mao.kiev.ua

Ira Pestova

Personal details. Ukrainian, date of birth 1968, female.
Qualifications. Candidate of Biological Sciences; member of Ukrainian Botanical Society and IOPB; Diploma Course of Herbarium Techniques provided by RBG Kew and Komarov Botanical Institute.
Current position. Researcher, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Expertise. Taxonomy of vascular plants (Lamiaceae, Polygonaceae); flora of the Middle Ukraine; meadow steppe; teaching students of biological faculty of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University; 16 scientific publications; site manager for Ukraine's first National Conference on Conservation of Biodiversity, Kaniv, 1997.
Languages. Ukrainian, Russian, English (good), Latin (basic).
Expeditions & fieldwork. Participant and July base site manager for the Royal Geographical Society's first Ralph Brown Expedition (1998); participant in student expedition to Kamchatka (1989); field work in the forest, steppe, and steppe & forest zones of Ukraine (Crimea, Carpathians), and Russia (1990-1998, 17 expeditions).