Lyudmila Alexandrovna Lysenko, PhD, is a Russian ecologist, sociologist and public figure, a Leading Scientific Researcher of the Karelian Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Lyudmila comes from a family of doctors, scientists and forensic medical specialists with a long and strong traditions. She graduated from Department of Ecology and Biology of Petrozavodsk State University. In 2004, under the leadership of a corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor N. N. Nemova, she defended her PhD dissertation.
Lyudmila Lysenko's research interests include:
○ studying and preserving biodiversity;
○ physical, chemical, biological and social evolution;
○ sociology and methodology of life sciences;
○ social ecology;
○ interreligious dialogue;
○ health public policy.
Lyudmila is the author of 2 monographs, 3 chapters in monographs, 2 textbook, more than 70 articles in periodicals.
She is the author, director and supervisor of a number of volunteer social programmes, including environmental ones: creating ecological-friendly city landscapes, developing ecologically friendly lifestyle regimes with minimisation of consumption, implementing programmes of separate waste collection, recycling and splitting of plastic pollutants, protecting and constructing shelters for homeless animals, as well as providing the animals with homes; and social ones: social control of political election campaigns, social education, construction of Orthodox temples in Russia.
Lyudmila Lysenko is directly involved in the formation of civil society in the Russian Federation. She is a member of several social control organisations.