Julia Lajus
European University at St. Petersburg
Center for Environmental and Technological History
3 Gagrinskaia str. 191187, St. Petersburg
Russia
jlajus@eu.spb.ru

Julia Lajus is currently a director of the Center for Environmental and Technological History, European University at St. Petersburg, and Senior Researcher at St. Petersburg branch of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Being a Regional Representative for Russia and part of Eastern Europe in the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) she is a member of ESEH Board. Julia Lajus has got her basic education in marine biology and then got PhD in history for the historical studies of relations between fishery science and fisheries in the Barents Sea. Her major fields of interest are marine environmental history and history of field sciences, mainly in polar regions. For several years she co-ordinates Russian team of historians and biologists within the interdisciplinary global project "History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP)". She participates also in European Science Foundation EUROCORES programme "BOREAS: Histories from the North - environments, movements, narratives" and several International Polar Year projects.