Yuriy Kvach
D.Sc.(Biol.), Senior Researcher
Leader Researcher
e-mail: yuriy.kvach@gmail.com
Researcher ID: https://publons.com/researcher/A-2814-2015/
Scopus ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=15824076400
Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?user=sen8F2IAAAAJ&hl
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yuriy-Kvach
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6122-4150
Research Interests:
Ichthyology, parasitology, invasive species, hydrobiology.
Education:
1994-1999 Mechnikov Odesa National University
Defense of dissertations:
PhD «Helminths of gobies (Gobiidae) and other background fish species in the Gulf of Odessa, lagoons and estuaries of the North-Western Black Sea region (fauna, ecology)», 2005, Institute of Zoology of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv.
DSc «Forming of parasite communities in populations of invasive goby-like fishes (Actinopterygii: Gobiiformes)», 2019, Institute of Marine Biology of the NAS of Ukraine, Odesa.
Professional career:
1999 – Southern Scientific Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography, Odesa Branch (junior researcher)
1999–2002 Department of Zoology, Mechnikov Odesa National University (PhD Student)
2002–2008 Odessa Branch of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of NAS of Ukraine (junior researcher)
2008–2009 Institute of Parasitology of Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic (post-doc)
2009–2014 Odessa Branch of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of NAS of Ukraine (scientific researcher)
2014–2017 Institute of Vertebrates Biology of Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic (post-doc)
2017 – now Institute of Marine Biology of NAS of Ukraine (scientific researcher)
Participation in international and national projects:
2020–2023 «Invasive Alien Species Observatory and Network Development for the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts in Black Sea Deltaic Protected Areas». Joint Operational Programme Black Sea basin 2014–2020, Grant #1121.
2020–2023 «Development of scientific backgrounds of comprehensive monitoring and threats of distribution of invasive fish species by riverine systems and transitional waters of Ukraine (based on parasite, population and genetic markers)». National Science Foundation of Ukraine, Grant #2020.02/0171.
2020–2022 «Structure, functioning and rational usage of the bottom ichthyocenes of the North-Western Black Sea». Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
2020–2021 «Measuring the marine ecosystem health: concepts, indicators, assessments». Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
2019–2020 «The ecological and biological triggers of expansion of the invasive fish, Chinese sleeper (Perccottus glenii), in Eastern Europe». Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
2014–2018 «European Center for Ichthyoparasitology (ECIP)». Grant Agency of the Czech Republic.
2011–2013 «The role of the Ponto-Caspian gobies (Gobiidae) in the distribution of parasites on the territory of Poland along the Central Corridor of Invasion». Ministry of Science and Education of Poland, grant # NN304409239
2010 – «The Colonization of the invasive round goby Apollonia melanostoma by parasites in new localities in the south-western Baltic Sea». DAAD Fellowship (Antragsformular für Forschungs-/ Arbeitsaufenthalte ausländischer Hochschullehrer).
2008 – «Phylogeography of fish parasites of the European marine and brackish waters». Synthesys grant #FR-TAF-4510.
2006 – «Systematic Biology in the Biotic Systems and Resources Division». Supplement to grants of National Science Foundation (NSF) # DEB-0349964 and #DEB-0630172
2003–2004 Scholarship of Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego.
2000–2002 «Biodiversity of Helminths of Goby Fishes from the North-Western Black Sea Region». Scholarship of Otto Kinne Foundation.
Teaching and enlightening activities:
1999 – Teacher of biology, Odesa School №39, Odessa Art School.
2010 – Lecturing on Parasitology (10 hours of lectures and 20 hours of practices) for students and scientists of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
Membership in scientific and public organizations:
Ukrainian Scientific Society of Parasitologists