Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia.

Irina I. Volkova, Associate Professor of Department of Botany, Head of Laboratory of Biogeocoenology, Senior Researcher of BioClimLand Center, Tomsk State University (RUSSIA) has 25 years research and 22 years university teaching experience. Specializing in bryology, mosses biodiversity, plant ecology, vegetation science, peat macrofossil analysis and stratigraphy of Siberian peatlands and mires, paleoecology and climate change.