ABOUT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The Editor-in-Chief of the journal «The North Caucasus Ecological Herald” is Koshchaev Andrey Georgievich, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biol. Sciences, Vice-Rector for Research, Kuban State Agrarian University named after I. T. Trubilin (Russia, Krasnodar).
Koshaev Andrey Georgievich is a well-known scientist, a specialist in the field of Agricultural Biotechnology and Functional Nutrition.
A. G. Koshchaev graduated from the Kuban State University with a degree in Biology in 1991, completed full-time postgraduate studies at Kuban State Agrarian University. Since 1997 he has been working at the Department of Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, and since March 2014 he has been appointed Vice-Rector for Research at the Kuban State Agrarian University.
The main areas of scientific research of Andrey Koshaev are focused on the development of biotechnologies for the production of functional feed additives, preparations and the biological evaluation of the effectiveness of their use in animal husbandry.
The results of Andrei Koshaev's research determined a new scientific trend and made it possible to formulate a strategy for the use of functional feed additives to increase the productivity and safety of poultry. The results of such work ensured in 2008 the defense of a doctoral dissertation on the topic "Biotechnology of Production and the Use of Functional Feed Additives for Poultry." In 2019 he was awarded the title of Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in 2021 he became Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The scientific developments of A. G. Koshchaev and his scientific school are widely used in the industrial production of feed additives at a number of specialized enterprises in Russia, they are part of compound feed at poultry farms in the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, Belgorod, Rostov, Sverdlovsk and Leningrad regions, Republic of Adygea and Dagestan. These developments have been implemented in more than 50 agricultural enterprises in the south of Russia.
As a result of his work on the development of technological programs for livestock enterprises, he received 237 patents of the Russian Federation for inventions and 9 certificates for software products.
The results of A. G. Koshchaev’s research were published in 771 scientific and educational papers, including 32 monographs, 241 works in publications from the list of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation, 65 works in publications indexed in international citation systems (Scopus, Web of Science), 42 textbooks, 2 glossary and reference books and 31 teaching aids.
Andrey Georgievich Koshchaev is a member of two dissertation councils functioning at the Kuban State Agrarian University.
Professor Koshchaev is the Managing Editor of the VAK journals “Proceedings of the Kuban State Agrarian University” (Krasnodar) and “Polythematic Network Electronic Scientific Journal of the Kuban State Agrarian University” (Krasnodar). He actively works as a member of the Editorial Boards of the following journals: "Mixed Feed" (Moscow), "Veterinary Science of Kuban" (Krasnodar), "Proceedings of the Kazan State Academy of Veterinary Medicine. N. E. Bauman" (Kazan), "Bulletin of the Ulyanovsk State Agricultural Academy" (Ulyanovsk) and "Agrarian Bulletin of the Urals" (Yekaterinburg).
As an expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Science Foundation, A. G. Koshchaev conducts expert work.
For high achievements in scientific and pedagogical activity, Andrey Georgievich Koshchaev was awarded numerous certificates of honor, letters of thanks, diplomas, including acknowledgement from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (2012), acknowledgement from the Head of the Administration (Governor) of the Krasnodar Territory (2010) , certificates of honor of the Department of Education and Science of the Krasnodar Territory (2008, 2010), he is aureate of the Krasnodar Territory Administration Prize in science (2004) and laureate of the Krasnodar Territory Administration Prize in education (2008, 2014), he was awarded the diploma of the Federal Service for Supervision in the field of environmental management in the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygea (2012), acknowledgement from the State Veterinary Administration of the Krasnodar Territory (2014), diploma of the State Council - Khase of the Republic of Adygea (2016), diploma of the regional council of the All-Russian Society of Inventors and Innovators (2017), diploma of Ministry of Agriculture and Processing Industry of the Krasnodar Territory (2017), certificate of honor from the Administration of the Krasnodar Territory (2021), acknowledgement from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation (2021).