Roman A. FANDO

S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IHST RAS), Moscow, Russia

Email: fando@mail.ru

Personal URL: http://ihst.ru/iiet/structure/fando/

ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2180-4393

Scopus Author ID: 23496151500

Web of Science ResearcherID: E-2890-2016

SPIN code: 3779-3324

Doctor of Historical Sciences (speciality 07.00.02 – National History),
Director of IHST RAS

Research interests:

history of biology, history of academic institutes and universities, scientific schools

Membership in scientific associations:

President of the Russian National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

Membership in the editorial boards of other journals:

  • “Studies in the History of Biology”/ “Istoriko-biologicheskie issledovaniya” (St. Petersburg, Russia) ‒ Deputy Chief Editor
  • “History of Science and Science of Science” (Baku, Azerbaijan) ‒ editorial board member

Publications in the subject area of the journal “Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki” [“Studies in the History of Science and Technology”]:

  • Karikatury na uchenyh: problemy istochnikovedcheskogo analiza [Caricatures of scientists : problems of source analysis], Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki [Studies in the History of Science and Technology], 2022, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 490-512. DOI: 10.31857/S020596060021608-0 (in Russian)
  • The Russian Eugenics Society: History and Scope of Activities, Studies in the History of Biology, 2021, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 52-81. DOI: 10.24412/2076-8176-2021-2-52-81
  • “Chudesa” doktora I.N. Kazakova: nauchnye i politicheskie spory vokrug lizatoterapii [Dr. I.N. Kazakov’s “Miracles”: Scientific and Political Controversies around Lysate Therapy], Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki [Studies in the History of Science and Technology], 2021, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 258-295. DOI: 10.31857/S020596060015082-2 (in Russian)
  • “Natsional'nye refleksii” uchenykh kak stimul i motivatsiya dlya provedeniya istoriko-nauchnykh issledovanii [“National reflections” of Scientists as an Incentive and Motivation for Historical-scientific Research], SociologiaNauki I Tehnologij – Sociology of Science and Technology, 2021, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 71-89. DOI: 10.24412/2079-0910-2021-2-71-89 (with Rodny, A.N.) (in Russian)
  • Fel'etony i karikatury na uchenykh kak istoricheskie istochniki [Caricatures and Satires of Scientists as Historical Sources], Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki [Studies in the History of Science and Technology],2021, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 717-745.DOI: 10.31857/S020596060007597-8 (in Russian)
  • Zhenshchiny-uchenye “v teni” izvestnykh muzhei [Women Scientists “In the Shadow” of their Famous Husbands], Sociologia Nauki I Tehnologij – Sociology of Science and Technology, 2020, vol. 11, no 2, pp. 128-145. DOI: 10.24411/2079-0910-2020-12007 (in Russian)
  • “The Case of Professor V.M. Danchakova” or the Difficult Years of a Russian American in the Country of the Soviets,Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki [Studies in the History of Science and Technology], 2020, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 247-282. DOI: 10.31857/S020596060009436-1 (in Russian)
  • Russian women at the beginning of human genetics, History of science and technology, 2020, vol. 10, no. 1(16), pp. 110-126. DOI: 10.32703/2415-7422-2020-10-1(16)-110-126
  • Istoriko-nauchnoe tvorchestvo vydayushchikhsya estestvoispytatelei: problemy motivatsii i professional'noi mobil'nosti [The Outstanding Naturalists Works on the History of Science: Problems of Motivation and Professional Mobility], Sociologia Nauki I Tehnologij – Sociology of Science and Technology, 2019, vol. 10, no 1, pp. 30-46. DOI: 10.24411/2079-0910-2019-10003 (with Rodny, A.N.) (in Russian)
  • Sergei Mikhailovich Gershenzon ‒ uchenyi, o peredivshii svoe vremya [Sergey Mikhailovich Gershenson, The Scientist Who Was Ahead of His Time], Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki [Studies in the History of Science and Technology], 2019, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 73-94. DOI: 10.31857/S020596060003894-5 (in Russian)
  • The history of teaching zoology at the Moscow Higher Woman’s courses in the early 20th Century, Studies in the History of Biology, 2018, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 46-66. DOI: 10.24411/2076-8176-2018-11956
  • Tomas Morgan i razvitie biologii ХХ veka. K 150-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya [Thomas Morgan and the Development of Twentieth Century Biology. To the 150th anniversary of the Birth], Vestnik Rossijskoj akademii nauk [Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences], 2016, vol. 86, no. 9, pp. 847-851. DOI: 10.7868/S0869587316090279 (with Muzrukova, E.) (in Russian)

Participation in grants:

  • Grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research “Molecular biology in the USSR: historical stages and scientific achievements” (2020-2021) ‒ project head
  • Grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research “A social history of the “first wave” of Russian scientific emigration to the USA” (2018-2020) ‒ project executant
  • Grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research “The history of Russian human genetics: the main stages of its institutionalisation” (2017-2019) ‒ project head
  • Grant of the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation “A portrait of Russian naturalist in the context of socio-cultural changes in the late 19th ‒ early 20th century” (2007-2009) ‒ project executant
  • Grant of the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation “Scientific schools in the 20th century Russian biology and their transformation in the 1980s and 1990s” (2004-2006) ‒ project executant
  • Grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research “The role of the interdisciplinary approach in the emergence of new biological research areas in the 1960s-1980s” (2004-2006) ‒ project executant
  • Grant of the Russian Federation President “A study of the phenomenon of scientific schools in the history of Russian genetics” (2004-2006) ‒ project head
  • Grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research “The role of fundamental discoveries of Russian genetics of the 1930s–1940s in the development of the twentieth century biology” (2002‒2003) ‒ project head

Contact information:

14, Baltiyskaya ul., Moscow, 125315, Russian Federation

+7 (495) 988-22-80

Email: fando@mail.ru