Oleksiy Yanchukov

Oleksiy Yanchukov

Position: post-doc
Research topics: population genetics
Department: External research facility Studenec
Phone: +420 560 59 0 6
E-mail: yawa33gmail.com

Research interest

• population genetics,
• hybrid zones,
• migration-selection models,
• evolution by gene duplications,
• herpetology.

Education

• 1994–1999: Ivan Franko National University of L’viv, Ukraine - Specialist in Biology.
• 1999–2003: Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine - Candidate of Sciences Biology (PhD equivalent).

Employment

• 2003-2006: Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine – junior research scientist.
• 2004: Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK – visiting fellowship from NATO/Royal Society of London.
• 2006–2009: Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Department of Zoology, University of Otago, New Zealand – postdoctoral researcher.
• 2009–2013: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara - associate specialist II.
• 2014–present: Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Department of Population Biology Studenec – postdoctoral researcher.

Invited talks

• School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, 12/2012.

Reviewer

• PLOS One.