E-mail: oskolski @  yandex . ru

28.12.1962 - born in Leningrad.
1985 - graduated from the Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, Leningrad State University.
1985-1988 – PhD student at the Komarov Botanical Institute.
989 – defended the PhD (=Candidate of biological sciences) thesis “Comparative wood anatomy of Araliaceae Juss.”. Scientific advisor: Prof. E.S. Chavchavadze.
1989 – 1992 - Junior Researcher in the Botanical Museum, Komarov Botanical Institute.
1992 – 1998 - Researcher in the Botanical Museum, Komarov Botanical Institute.
1998 – present: Senior Researcher in the Botanical Museum, Komarov Botanical Institute.
2005 –  present: Curator of Dendrological collection.

 Main fields of interest:

comparative anatomy of vegetative organs of higher plants; plant systematics and phylogenetics; databases for biological collections; biological education; phaenomenological and hermeneutical approaches in philosophy of biology;

 Current research:

- Comparative bark and wood anantomy of Araliaceae and Apiaceae.
- Morphology and evolution of polymerous flowers in Araliaceae.
- Correlations betwwen biomechanic properties and anatomical structure of stems and roots of Coussapoa (Cecropiaceae).
 

Scientific activities:
Russian Botanical society (RBO), member; International Association of Wood Anatomists (IAWA), member; St.Petersburg Association of Scientists and Scholars, member.

 Fellowships:
1993 - research grant from the G. Soros Cultural Initiative Programm «Biodiversity» (Project «Comparative wood anatomy of Schefflera and related taxa (Araliaceae)»)
1994 -  participation in the Third Pacific Regional Wood Anatomy Conference (Rotorua, New Zealand) supported by travel grant from the International Science Foundation.
1995 - 1996 -  research work in Ordinariat für Holzbiologie, Universität Hamburg, Germany, supported by the 10-months stipend from Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
1996 - 1997 - field works in New Caledonia and Australia supported by the National Geographic Society grant #5793-96
1999 -  research work in Ordinariat für Holzbiologie, Universität Hamburg, Germany, supported by the short-term grant from Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).
1999 - 2001 - coordinator of the project «Database for the wood collection of Botanical Museum, Komarov Botanical Institute» supported by grant # 99-07-90240 from Russian Foundation of Basic Researchs.
2004:  research work in Plant Biomechanics Group, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Hamburg, Germany, supported by the short-term grant from Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).
2006 – present: coordinator of the research project: “Comparative morphology and phyloginetics of Araliaceae and related taxa” supported by grant # 06-04-48003 from the Russian Foundation of Basic Researchs.
2006: research work in Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, UK, supported by the short-term grant from the Royal Society of London.
 

Professional Service:

Manuscript Reviewer: Botanicheski Zhurnal (St.Petersburg); IAWA Journal; Tree: Structure and Function; Australian Journal of Botany
Member of Editorial Board: Wulfenia (Klagenfurt, Austria).
Organising Committee Secretary: IX Workshop on Theoretical Plant Morphology "Types of Similarities and Principles of the Homologies Revealed in Plant Morphology" (St.Petersburg, 31.01-03.02, 2001).
Editor of textbook: Nienburg E.A. General Ecology: Approaches and Methods. Moscow, 2005, KMK. 138 p.
Co-Editor: Homologies in Botany: Experience and Reflections. St. Petersburg 2001, SPASS. P. 100 – 118.
 

Student Advisees:

Thesis Advisor at St. Petersburg State University: Ivan Fomichev (2001)
Advisor of the PhD student Ekaterina Kotina at Komarov Botanical Institute (St. Petersburg) (2002 – 2005).
 

Other activities:
Author of 31 publicistic essays and popular scientific papers in the magazins “Pchela”, “Expert Severo-Zapad”, “Top Manager”, “ Spectrum”, “Abaris”, and in the newspapers “Izvestia”, “Chas Pik”, “Enisejskaja Pravda”.
Author and presenter of the radio programme “Pathfinders” (about scientific and intellectual life of St.Petersburg) on the radio chanel “Echo Peterburga” (St. Petersburg, 91.5 FM) (2001-2005).

Total publications: 90 (including 1 book and 19 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals).

Selected publications:

Oskolski, A.A. 1995. Wood anatomy of Schefflera and related taxa (Araliaceae) // IAWA Journal, Vol. 16 (2): 159 - 190.
Oskolski, A.A. 1996. A survey of wood anatomy of the Araliaceae. Pp. 99 - 119 in L. A. Donaldson, A. P. Singh, B. G. Butterfield & L. J. Whitehouse (eds.), Recent Advances in Wood Anatomy.  New Zealand Forest Research Institute, Rotorua.
Oskolski, A. A & K.K. Shrestha. 1996. Stem anatomy of Cyananthus (Campanulaceae) with taxonomic comments. Pp. 310 - 318 in P.K. Jha, G.P.S. Ghimire, S.B. Karmacharya, S.R. Baral, and P. Lacoul (eds.), Environment and Biodiversity: in the Context of South Asia. Ecological Society (ECOS), P.O. Box 6132, Kathmandu.  (Proceed. Regional Conf. Environment and Biodiversity, March 7-9, 1994, Kathmandu).
Oskolski, A. A., P. P. Lowry II & H. G. Richter.  1997.  Systematic wood anatomy of Myodocarpus, Delarbrea, and Pseudosciadium (Araliaceae). // Adansonia, ser. 3, 19: 61-75.
Oskolski A.A. & P.P. Lowry II. 2000. Wood anatomy of Mackinlaya and Apiopetalum (Araliaceae) and its systematic implications // Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 87: 171-182.
Oskolski A.A. 2001. Phylogenetic relationships within Apiales: evidence from wood anatomy. Edinburgh J. Bot. 58 (2): 201-206.
Lowry II, P. P., Plunkett G. M. & Oskolski A. A. 2001. Early lineages in Apiales: insights from morphology, wood anatomy and molecular data. Edinburgh J. Bot. 58 (2): 207-220.
Oskolski A.A. & P.P. Lowry II. 2001. Wood anatomy of Schefflera and related taxa (Araliaceae). II. Systematic wood anatomy of New Caledonian Schefflera. IAWA J. 22(3): 301-330.
Kolalite M.R., A.A.Oskolski, H.G.Richter & U.Schmitt. 2003. Bark anatomy and intercellular canals in the stem of Delarbrea paradoxa (Araliaceae). IAWA Journal,Vol.24 (2): 139 –154.
Oskolski A.A., M.V. Remizova, E. Kudryavtseva, D.D. Sokoloff. The most polymerous gynoecium among asterids: floral development in Tupidanthus calyptratus Hook.f. & Thoms. // XVII Int. Bot. Congress –Abstracts. Vienna, 2005. p. 196 (abstr. 12.3.5).
Kurzyna-Młynik R., R. Kopacz, A. Wojewódzka, A.A. Oskolski, K. Spalik. Polyphyly of the genus Ferula (Apiaceae) and the affinity of most of its members to tribe Scandiceae based on rDNA ITS sequence variation // XVII Int. Bot. Congress –Abstracts. Vienna, 2005. p. 444 (abstr. P1307).
Kotina E.L., A.A. Oskolski. Bark anatomy of Meryta (Araliaceae) // XVII Int. Bot. Congress –Abstracts. Vienna, 2005. p. 303 (abstr. P0399).
Kravtsova T.I., A.A. Oskolski. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships of the Urticaceae, Cecropiaceae and Moraceae based on its comparative carpology// XVII Int. Bot. Congress –Abstracts. Vienna, 2005. p. 468 (abstr. P1462).