Was born on Oct., 25, 1963.
Graduated from Tomsk State University in 1986. Diploma work: "Inchworm moths (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) of the Kulunda steppe (West Siberia)"

Work:
1986-1988 - graduated student of Zoological Museum of Biological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now - Siberian Zoological Museum of the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences);
1988 - junior researcher;
1988-1991 - postgraduate;
1992-1993 - junior researcher;
1993-present time - researcher.

PhD. thesis: "Inchworm moths (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) from the forest-steppe belt of the West Siberian plain"
Defended in 1993 in the Biological Institute (now - Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology), Novosibirsk.

Curator of the Geometridae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) and Symphyta (Insecta, Hymenoptera) collections in Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, SB RAS, Frunze street, 11, Novosibirsk, 630091, RUSSIA.

Fields of scientific interest: systematics, zoogeography, faunistics of inchworm moths (Lepidoptera, Geometridae), mainly from the subfamilies Sterrhinae and Larentiinae of the Palearctic. Faunistics of Symphyta (Hymenoptera) of North Asia.

A list of scientific publications is here.

work:
Siberian Zoological Museum
Institute of Animal Systematic and Ecology
Frunze street, 11
Novosibirsk 91
630091 RUSSIA

Phone (work) +7(3832)170285
FAX(work) +7(3832)170973
E-mail (work): s.v.vasilenko@mail.ru
E-mail (home): svasilenko@.ngs.ru