Aleksandr Pakhomov

Biography

In 2012, I graduated with a Specialist Diploma in Vertebrate Zoology from the Faculty of Biology at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). By the end of 2016, I earned my Ph.D. in Zoology from MSU and began working as a Researcher in the Rybachy Animal Navigation Group (PI: Nikita Chernetsov) at the Biological Station Rybachy, part of the Zoological Institute of RAS. In 2020, I started leading my own research group, MagBBB (Magnetoreception in Birds, Bats, and Butterflies). My research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of orientation and navigation in various migratory animals, including birds, bats, butterflies and moths, dragonflies. My research often involves designing and implementing complex experimental setups, which I find incredibly rewarding. These setups allow me to study the navigation behaviour of my model species under various conditions.

Academic positions

• 2024-present: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, Keele University, UK
• 2022-2024: Senior Researcher, Biological Station Rybachy, ZIN RAS, Russia
• 2017-2022: Researcher, Biological Station Rybachy, ZIN RAS, Russia
• 2016-2020: Researcher, Laboratory of the evolution of sense organs, Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology& Biochemistry RAS, Russia
• 2015-2017: Junior Researcher, Biological Station Rybachy, ZIN RAS, Russia
• 2012-2016: PhD (Zoology). Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Research and scholarship

• The ecological, behavioural and physiological basis of animal migration
• Animal orientation and navigation
• Magnetoreception in migratory animals

Further information

Personal web pages

• Website of my research group: magbbb.com
• ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexander-Pakhomov-4
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8092-4817
• Twitter (MagBBB Group): https://twitter.com/RybAnimNavGroup