Biography
I obtained a classical education in Natural Science focusing on genetics and molecular biology (1st MSc) in my native city, Odesa, Ukraine. Afterward, I joined the research-oriented double degree MEME Erasmus Mundus Master program in Evolutionary biology, where I defended two MScs. The 2nd MSc I earned at Uppsala University (UU), Sweden, by studying the evolutionary transition from fins to limbs on the giant Devonian fish Hyneria. I approached digital palaeohistology techniques. The 3rd MSc I earned at the Ludwig-Maximillian University of Munich (LMU), Germany, by studying the smallest known frog's external and internal 3D anatomy.
I did my doctoral project at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart, Germany. My project was interdisciplinary and involved 3D anatomy, neuroethology, biomechanics, and soft robotics. I studied a unique intraspinal mechanosensing lumbosacral organ (LSO) in birds. The LSO is a potential sensor, apart from the vestibular organ in a head, that hypothetically contributes to robust and agile bird locomotion.
μCT-based 3D-reconstruction of a medium-scale dart poison frog (Ranitomeya variabilis) and the smallest frog known (Stumpffia pygmaea)
The project aimed to overcome the limitations of classical dissection by utilizing nondestructive digital techniques to explore the morphological features of external and internal structures of medium and small-scale rainforest frogs: Ranitomeya variabilis (body length 14.7 mm) and Stumpffia pygmaea (body length 5.27 mm). The digital dissection allowed for the investigation of digital histology, morphology, constellation, and the volumetry of internal organs.
This project was conducted as a Master's thesis at LMU in 2016.
Long-bone features of the extinct early tetrapod Hyneria
The current study focuses on the evolutionary establishment of long bone growth. I investigated the digital paleontology and microanatomy of the fossilized humerus of Hyneria based on data produced by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). Skeletochronological measurements of the Hyneria's long bone proved this species possesses primitive features related to early tetrapods.
This project was conducted as a Master's thesis at Uppsala University (UU) in 2016, and published as a first-author Paper in a special edition Festschrift Volume for Professor Jennifer Clark: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S175569101800083X
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