Victor Chepinoga

Dr. Victor Chepinoga serves as a Scientific Researcher in the Department of Geobotany at the Institute of Earth System Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover. His office is located at Nienburger Straße 17, Building 3201, Room 110A, Hanover. With extensive experience in Siberian flora research, he maintains active collaborations across Russian and German academic institutions.

His research focuses on Geobotany, Biogeography, Phytosociology, and Hydrobotany, specializing in vascular plant systematics, vegetation classification, and floristic studies of Siberian and Asian ecosystems. Current work emphasizes the flora of Baikal Siberia, grassland ecosystems across Asia, and genomic biogeography of alpine plants. His methodological expertise includes vegetation mapping, taxonomic revisions, and paleoecological analysis using sediment records.

Analysis of his 14 recent publications (2022-2025) reveals dominant themes in floristic inventories (notably the comprehensive Checklist of vascular plants of Asian Russia), species-level systematics (particularly Acorus and Poaceae), and vegetation classification frameworks for conservation applications. His work bridges classical taxonomy with modern genomic approaches and emphasizes open-access data dissemination.

Dr. Chepinoga has managed multiple Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFG) projects including studies of Baikal Siberia's flora (2019-2020), Nemoral Refuge vegetation (2016-2018), and aquatic plant diversity (2014-2015). He serves on editorial boards for Botanica Pacifica (since 2012) and Vegetation Classification and Survey (since 2022), and was Editor-in-Chief for Flora and vegetation of Asian Russia (2021-2022).