Senior researcher, Candidate of Historical Sciences (PhD)
Research interests: Eneolit era – the early Iron Age of Southern Siberia, a problem of chronology of afanasyevsky culture, the bronze and early Iron Age of Mountain Altai; ceramics, ceramics manufacturing techniques, ornaments (ways of drawing an ornament, tools for drawing an ornament).
PhD dissertation theme: “Burial complexes of the Scythian period of the Middle Katun” (2000)