My name is Boris Eliseev (born 1983).
I am a biologist from Cantabria, Spain, working now on development of new medicines, an experienced professional in molecular biology and an amateur entomologist.
My interest in Dermaptera originates in middle school, when I did some research and collected specimens through Russia.
Some were collected by myself, some were provided from professor Gornostaev at Moscow University:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Г
...2;ев;, Георгий Николаевич, I met him on summer biological camp organized by Moscow University in Puschino, Moscow region). Unfortunately my collection has been lost during my moves between different cities.
After entering Perm State University (Perm, Russia) I worked for 1 year (my 1st year at the university) in paleontology on Meganisoptera from Permian period, found on one site close to my home city Perm, called Tchekarda, one of the richest sites for fossil insects in Russia (supervisor Victor G. Novokshonov, http://palaeoentomolog.ru/obituary.html).
Then I switched my interest to molecular biology. I did my PhD in Molecular Biology and worked for more than 12 years in the filed mostly on studies of protein biosynthesis machinery in Eukarya and Archaea at Institute of Protein research and Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology Russian Academy of Science in Moscow region and city, Russia and then European Laboratory of Molecular Biology (EMBL) in Grenoble, France. After my work in EMBL I switched to drug development (clinical trials), field where I am working now.
I still have strong interest in biological science and in entomology in particular but not sure if I will ever go back to work in science full-time.
During my university time I connected with Fabian Haas and we did two checklists of Dermaptera (earwigs) fauna of Russia and Ukraine on his old site for Dermaptera:
http://www.earwigs-online.de/RU/ru.html
http://www.earwigs-online.de/UA/ua.html
These checklists are still on his site, but the checklist for Russia is already quite outdated and not entirely correct (includes some species from central Asia, does not include some new species and new data about distribution of species), for the Ukraine checklist is still actual.
I am helping Stephan and other people on iNaturalist with identification of Dermaptera species, especially in the Palearctic region (from Portugal to Japan), where I have most knowledge, but also with IDs of earwigs in other regions as Indostan, South Africa and Australia.