Skills and Miscellaneous

• Russian (native)

• English (fluent)

• German (intermediate)

• Czech (intermediate)

• Swedish (beginner)

• Spanish (beginner)

Skills

Languages:

Methodological training:

• Microsoft Office confident user (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher, Outlook)

• Zotero and Mendeley

• Statistical analysis packages: Stata, SPSS, R and MPlus

• WordPress, other website builders and social networks Gimp, Canva

Computer Skills

• Advanced econometric and statistical analysis (regression analysis of longitudinal and panel datasets, GMM, time-series methods, multilevel analysis, structural equation modeling, cluster and factor analysis, and other)

• Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

• Basic qualitative techniques of data analysis (interview methods, focus groups, text analysis, etc.)

Prizes, Awards and Grants

2015-present: Vetenskapsrådet Research Grant "Structure of Health in Europe: the Relations between Mortality, Morbidity, Subjective Health and Functional Limitation".

August 2012: Best Paper Prize for Young Scholars, 14th Biennial Congress of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology, Hannover, Germany.

November 2011: Full funding for participation in Workshop “Healthcare systems: change and outcomes. Ideas, institutions, actors, and reforms” from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

November 2010: Full funding for participation in the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, WHO, Montreux, Switzerland from the Secretariat, WHO.

August 2010: Best Paper Prize for Young Scholars, 13th Biennial Congress of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology, Ghent, Belgium

2009-2012: Scholarship (€15,000 pa) for conducting PhD research for 3 years from BIGSSS and the German Research Foundation (DFG).

2007-2009: Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (€21,000 pa) for MA studies for 2 years from the European Commission.

2006-2007: Swedish Institute Scholarship (SEK80,000 pa) for MA studies for 1 year from the Swedish government.

2000-2001: “Future Leaders Exchange” (FLEX) Programme scholarship for 1 year high school exchange in the USA from the US Government.

Other Professional Activities

• Social Science and Medicine

• Frontiers in Medical Sociology

• Frontiers in Sociology

• Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

• Public Health

January 2014 – present: Reviewer for international journals: