e-mail: ochurakova [at] sfu-kras [dot] ru
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Place of work
- leading researcher.
Education
- Krasnoyarsk State University, Russia, Biophysics, 1999;
- V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Russia, PhD in biology, 2003;
- Siberian Federal University, Habilitation in ecology, 2019.
Scientific directions
- Response of boreal and alpine forest ecosystems to recent and past climate changes;
- Application of stable carbon, oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in tree-ring cellulose to understand and improve our knowledge about temperature and moisture changes in temperature-limited environment;
- Impact of extreme climatic events on forest, climate and society over the past 2000 years.
Награды, дипломы, членство в союзах
- Scholarship, Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape, WSL, Switzerland, 2001;
- Conference Travel Grant, Tree Rings and People, Davos, Switzerland, 2001;
- Best Poster Award, IUFRO Conference, Russia, 2003;
- Conference Travel Grant SIBAE, Spain, 2003;
- Conference Travel Grant, Brisbane, Australia, 2005;
- Exchange Visit Grant Swansea University, UK, 2005;
- Conference Travel Grant, Mallorca, Millennium Project, Spain, 2006;
- Scholarship, UFZ Helmholz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany, 2006;
- SNSF individual grant, exchange visit, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, 2010;
- Faculty Exchange Scholarship, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2013;
- Marie Curie Individual International Incoming Fellowship, Paul Scherer Institute, Switzerland, 2010-2013;
- SNSF Marie Heim-Vögtlin, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2013-2015.
Organisation of scientific meetings
- 2011–2016 European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly, 80-120 participants, Austria
- 2002 All-Russian Dendro Science Conference, 250 participants, Russia
Reviewing activities
- 2021 Editorial Board of Communications Earth & Environment
- 2020 Review Board, Frontiers, Temporal and Boreal Forests, Switzerland
- 2018–2022 Guest Editor, Special Issue MDPI Forests, Stable Isotopes in Dendroecology, Isotope Application in Forest Growth Assessment, Switzerland
- Since 2010 Reviewer for Dendrochronologia, New Phytologist, PlOS one, Nature Geoscience
Membership in scientific societies
- 2020 AGU member, Research Network “Earth and Space Sciences”
- 2017 ATR member, “Association of Tree Ring Research”
- 2010 EGU member, “Geosciences, Planetary and Space Sciences”
- 2005 PAGES ISO2K member and group leader in "Tree Ring Stable Isotopes"
Scientific experience
- 09/2020 – Leading scientist, Institute of ecology and geography, SFU, Russia
- 01/2018 – 08/2020 – Senior scientist, Institute of ecology and geography, SFU, Russia
- 01/2017 – 06/2018 Senior Scientist, Univeristy of Geneva, Switzerland
- 01/2016 – 12/2016 Assistant Professor, Institute of Geology, Switzerland
- 05/2013 – 12/2015 Senior Scientist, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 03/2009 – 05/2013 Scientist, Paul Scherrer Institue, Switzerland
- 12/2007 – 10/2010 PostDoc, Paul Scherrer Institue, Switzerland
- 12/2006 – 12/2006 PostDoc, Helmholz-Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ Haale/Saale, Germany
- 10/2005 – 12/2005 PostDoc, Paul Scherrer Institue, Switzerland
- 05/2003 – 02/2009 Researcher, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, SB RAS
- 06/1999 – 04/2003 PhD student, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, SB RAS
- 09/2001 – 10/2001 PhD Fellow, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Researches WSL, Switzerland
Dissemination and communication: > 50 media, > 100 oral and poster presentations, 25 keynote talks, 56 peer-reviewed scientific papers. Open Science, Open research data sets (BORIS; Zenodo)
Teaching activities
- 2017–2018 Application of stable isotopes to paleoclimatological studies, Siberian Federal University, Russia
- 2015–2017 International Summer Dendro School, lectures and practicum, Institute of Geology, Switzerland
- 2010–2015 Lab practicum in stable isotopes, Paul Scherrer Institute, University of Basel, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 2021-2023 RSF Hydrogen isotopes and deuterium excess (d-excess) in conifer tree-ring cellulose as indicator of extreme eco-hydrological changes in boreal forests (ECO-HYDROTREE), 21-17-00006, PI
- 2020-2021 RFBR Adaptation of conifer forests on the north of the Krasnoyarsk region (Taimyr Peninsula) to climatic changes after extreme events over the past 1500 years, 20-44-240001, PI
- 2018-2021 RSF Extreme (catastrophic) droughts on the Siberian south over the past millennia, 19-14-00028, Co-PI
- 2016-2018 Era.Net_RUS, Swiss National Science Foundation. Effects of large volcanic eruptions on Eurasian climate and societies: unravelling past evidence to predict future impacts (ELVECS), SNF IZRPZ0_164735, Co-PI
- 2015-2017 Brazil - Swiss joint research. Investigating the impacts of Andean volcanism on Eastern South American climate, Co-PI
- 2013-2015 SNSF Swiss National Science Foundation Individual Fellowship Marie Heim-Vögtlin Grant. Key Mechanisms of Metabolic Changes in Mountain Pine and Larch under Drought in the Swiss National Park. PMPDP2_145507, PI
- 2013 EU-FP7 People Marie Curie Re-integration Fellowship Climatic and environmental changes in the Eurasian Subarctic inferred from tree-ring and stable isotope chronologies for the past and recent periods EU_ISOTREC 909122, PI
- 2010-2013 EU-FP7 People Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship EU_ISOTREC Climatic and environmental changes in the Eurasian Subarctic inferred from tree-ring and stable isotope chronologies for the past and recent periods EU_ISOTREC 235122, PI
- 2009-2010 Swiss National Science Foundation Climate change and tree physiological response in Siberia and in the Alps during warm and cold periods of the last 1500 years. SNSF 200021_121838/1, Co-PI
- 2007 Swiss National Science Foundation Grant, Exchange Grant. Individual Fellowship. Response of larch trees from northern Siberia to climatic changes revealed by tree-ring and stable carbon and oxygen isotope data for the last 100 years. SNSF PIK02-119259. PI
- 2006 Helmholz-Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Isotope Hydrology, UFZ Haale/Saale Germany. Individual UFZ grant. Stable isotope analysis stable carbon and oxygen in tree rings, PI
- 2005 European Science Foundation ESF BASIN 596 Stable Isotopes in Biospheric-Atmospheric Exchange SIBAE. Individual Fellowship Response of larch trees from Eastern Taimyr to climatic changes after major volcanic eruptions inferred from tree-ring and isotope data, PI