Our team

The activities of the International Centre for Research in Human Development is based on an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together leading scientists and young researchers from different fields of study, e.g.: psychology, education, genetics, biology, linguistics, informatics, data science, neuroscience, etc.

Yulia Kovas

Yulia Kovas

Professor of Genetics and Psychology, Head of the International Laboratory for Cognitive Investigations and Behavioural Genetics

Olga Bogdanova

Olga Bogdanova

PhD in pedagogics, assistant professor of the Department of General and Educational Psychology (Faculty of Psychology, TSU); Deputy Director of the International Centre for Research in Human Development (TSU)

Svetlana Leshchinskaya

Svetlana Leshchinskaya

Junior Researcher of the International Centre for Research in Human Development (TSU)

Elena Esipenko

Elena Esipenko

PhD in biology, assistant professor of the Department of Clinical Psychology (Faculty of Psychology, TSU), Deputy Chairman of the Ethics Committee of Interdisciplinary Studies

Anna Budakova

Anna Budakova

Research Fellow, International Laboratory for Cognitive Investigations and Behavioural Genetics of the of the International Centre for Research in Human Development

Daria Matsepuro

Daria Matsepuro

PhD in historical science, Senior Researcher of the International Laboratory for Cognitive Investigations and Behavioural Genetics, Manager of the MSc Programme on Human Development

Oleg Lee

Oleg Lee

Кандидат физ.-мат. наук, научный сотрудник Лаборатории когнитивных исследований и психогенетики