Head of the Department of Comparative Psychology, Novosibirsk State University;
Head of the Laboratory of Community Ethology, Institute for Animal Systematics and Ecology RAS
Institute for Animal Systematics and Ecology
Frunze st. 11,Novosibirsk, 630091,Russia
Tel. 7 3832 284938
Fax: 7 3832 170973
e-mail : zhanna at reznikova .dot. net

SUMMARY: Researcher and Professor in the fields of Behavioural Ecology, Comparative and Cognitive Ethology, Ecology and Behaviour of Social Insects. Has published over 150 scientific publications, among which a book "Animal Intelligence: From Individual to Social Cognition", and 8 monographs in Russian. Head of the Department of Comparative Psychology, Novosibirsk State University,Head of the Laboratory of Community Ethology, Institute for Animal Systematics and Ecology RAS, A member of IUSSI (International Union for the Study of Social Insects), of ASAB (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour) and of IALE (International Association of Landscape Ecologists).

EXPERIENCE:

2005 - present	Head of the Department of Comparative Psychology, Novosibirsk State University
2004 - present	Head of the Laboratory of Community Ethology, Institute for Animal Systematics and Ecology RAS
2002 - present	professor at the Department of Psychology NSU. Teaching courses there: zoopsychology, Human Ethology; Ethological mechanisms of business and advertisement.
1990 - present:	Professor at a Department of General Biology and Ecology, Novosibirsk State University. Teaching courses there: " Ecology, Ethology, Evoluition", "Animal&Human Ethology", "Hot Points of Behavioural Ecology"
1987 - 2004	Leading researcher in the Laboratory of Insect Ecology , a head of a research group in Social Insects, Institute for Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch RAS
1977-1987:	Researcher in the Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Institute for Animal Systematics and Ecology
1974-1977:	Post-Graduate, Novosibirsk State University
1972-1974:	Young researcher, Dept. of General Biology, Novosibirsk State University

EDUCATION:

1990	Dr. Sci.,Moscow State University Reznikova Zh.I. 1990. Ethological mechanisms of integration of ant communities. Doctor's Thesis, Moscow State University.
1977	Ph. D., Institute for Evolutionary Problems of Animal Morphology and Ecology RAS, Moscow Reznikova Zh.I. 1977. Inter- and Intra-species relations in steppe Ant Communities. PhD Thesis, Institute for Evolutionary Problems of Animal Morphology and Ecology RAS, Moscow .
1972	M.S., Biologist, Novosibirsk State University