2017-11/2023: PhD student at Department of Biology, University of Oldenburg, Germany, AG Animal Navigation/"Neurosensorik" (Group leader: Prof. Dr. H. Mouritsen).
Project: Analysis of retinal cells in the avian retina with Ca²⁺ Imaging

2014-2016: Laboratory assistant, Vertebrate zoology laboratory, Biological Faculty, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

2015-2016: Specialist, Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2012 – 2014: Studies of Biological Sciences (Master), Biological Faculty, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. Thesis title: “Sociality and flock composition in the long-tailed tit (Aegithalos c. caudatus) during autumn migration period”

2008 – 2012: Studies of Biological Sciences (Bachelor), Biological Faculty, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. Thesis title: “Regulation of spring migratory state in the long-tailed tit”

2017

Chetverikova, R., Babushkina, O., Galkina, S., Shokhrin, V., & Bojarinova, J. Special case among passerine birds: long-tailed tits keep family bonds during migration. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 71(2), 40.

Pakhomov, A., Bojarinova, J., Cherbunin, R., Chetverikova, R., Grigoryev, P. S., Kavokin, K., ... & Chernetsov, N. Very weak oscillating magnetic field disrupts the magnetic compass of songbird migrants. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 14(133), 20170364.

2015: Chetverikova R., Babushkina O., Galkina S., Shokhrin V. and Bojarinova J.; “Sex identification in the long-tailed (Aegithalos c. caudatus) tit using molecular techniques”; Oral presentation at the International conference Energetics and annual cycles of birds in memory of V.R. Dolnik; Zvenigorod, Russia

2014: Chetverikova R., Babushkina O., Galkina S., Matsyna E., Shokhrin V. and Bojarinova J.; Flock composition and fluctuation of numbers in two populations of the Long-tailed Tit; Poster at the 26th International Ornithological Congress, Tokyo, Japan

2013: Chetverikova R., Babushkina O., Bojarinova J.; Regulation of spring migratory state in the long-tailed tit (Aegithalos c. caudatus); Poster at the 9th Conference of the European Ornithologists Union, Norwich, UK