New Regional Representative for Russia & additional Eastern European Countries

Since 1 January 2007 Julia A. Lajus has become the Regional Representative (RR) for Russia & additional Eastern European Countries. She replaced Daniel Alexandrov and she will serve as a provisional RR until the next elections.

Julia joined the ESEH in 2001. She graduated with M.S. in Biology from the St. Petersburg State University in 1985 and a PhD in History from the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow (theme: “Development of fisheries studies in the Barents Sea: relations between science and fisheries, 1898 -1934”). Since 1995 she has held research post at the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2006 she became Director of Centre for Environmental and Technological History at European University at St. Petersburg.

Her original research is focused on history of marine sciences, history of fisheries and environmental history of the Arctic. She has presented papers at two ESEH conferences in Prague and Florence and at other confer­ences in several European countries. Her last publications include: Influence of weather and climate on fisheries: overview of the early history of the problem, 1850s–1950s, in: Stefan Emeis & Cornelia Lüdecke (Eds.) (Augsburg, 2005). pp. 103 –115; The use of historical catch data to trace the influence of climate on fish populations: examples from the White and Barents Sea fisheries in 17th - 18th centuries. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences. (2005). V. 62 (7), pp. 1426-1435 (with D.L. Lajus, Z.V. Dmitrieva, A.V. Kraikovski, A.Y. Yurchenko, D.A. Alexandrov); Early Years of Biological Oceanography in the Russian North. Murman Scientific-Fishery Expedition. 1898 – 1908. (IOC of UNESCO & China Ocean Press, 2004), pp. 127 – 131; From Fishing to Mining: The Change of Priorities in the Development of the North and Russian Expedition to Spitsbergen in the early 20^th Century, (Stockholm, 2004), pp. 93 – 106.