Dr. Vladimir L. Gavrikov is a senior researcher and a lecturer at Siberian Federal University. He has previously worked as a researcher at Institute for Forest of Siberian Branch of the Russia Academy of Sciences, as a Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow at TU Dresden and as a dean of Biology, Geography and Chemistry Department of Krasnoyarsk Pedagogical University. His research interests are primarily in fields of ecological modeling, carbon cycle in forests, and radionuclide migration in forest ecosystems. He led a few projects in the fields sponsored by Russian foundations. He has published about 90 papers and a book Forest growth: levels of description and modeling.