HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Sergey Yakovlevich Kondratyuk () (born 17 May 1959) is a Ukrainian botanist specialising in lichenology. His research deals with the
taxonomy image:Hierarchical clustering diagram.png, 280px, Generalized scheme of taxonomy Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying scheme o ...
, floristics, ecology and geography of lichens and lichenicolous fungi. He has worked at the for more than 40 years. In 2014 Kondratyuk was awarded the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology.


Early life and education

Kondratyuk was born in the Kirovohrad region, in Ulyanovsk. After graduating from school in 1976 he became a student of the Faculty of Biology at Kyiv State University. He specialized in the Department of Lower Plants. While still a student, Kondratyuk started to study lichens under the guidance of O.B. Bloom. Then began his career at the Institute of Botany (1979), as a senior technician and later an engineer in the Department of Algology and Lichenology. He continued his career as a graduate student of the institute (1981–1984). After successfully defending his dissertation entitled "Lichens of the Dnieper Upland" (1985), Kondratyuk continued to work at the institute, having passed the path from junior to leading researcher, head of the laboratory and department, scientific secretary, deputy director and finally acting director of the institute. In 1996 Kondratyuk defended his doctoral dissertation "Lichen flora of the plains of Ukraine and its analysis"; in 2006 he received the title of
Professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...
.


Research

Since 1995, Kondratyuk has been working for many years with Professor
Ingvar Kärnefelt Jan Eric Ingvar Kärnefelt (born 1944) is a Swedish lichenologist. Early life and education Kärnefelt was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1944. His initial goal in his higher-level studies at University of Cologne in 1966–1967 was to become a ...
from the Botanical Museum of
Lund University Lund University () is a Public university, public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially foun ...
(Sweden) to study lichens of the family Teloschistaceae. Many new genera have been circumscribed as a result, including '' Xanthomendoza'', '' Josefpoeltia'', '' Oxneria'', and '' Rusavskia''. Extensive collaborations with South Korean scientists have also resulted in the description of many taxa previously unknown to science. As of 2019, Kondratyuk has been the author or co-author of more than 400 scientific publications. Some well-known publications include "Flora of lichens of Ukraine. Volume 2. Issue 2." (1993), "The second Checklist of Lichen forming, Lichenicolous and Allied fungi of Ukraine" (1998), "A Catalog of the Eastern Carpathian Lichens" (2003), "Checklist of Lichens of the Western Carpathians" (2004), " Determinant of lichens of Russia. Issue 9" (2004), "Lichen-Forming, Lichenicolous and Allied Fungi of Israel"(2005), "Lichenoindication (Manual)" (2006), "Indication of the state of the environment of Ukraine with the help of lichens" (2008). The fungus '' Epibryon kondratyukii'' , discovered in southern Ukraine, was named in his honour in 2019.


See also

* :Taxa named by Sergey Kondratyuk


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kondratyuk, Sergey Yakovlevich 1959 births Lichenologists 20th-century Ukrainian scientists 21st-century Ukrainian scientists Ukrainian botanists Taxonomists Laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni Living people