Artem V. Kouchinsky
Department of Palaeozoology
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm
Sweden

Dr. Artem Kouchinsky is a researcher at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. He received M.Sc. in Geology from the Moscow State University (Russian Federation) in 1992 and Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the Uppsala University (Sweden) in 2001. He works in collaboration with the Nordic Centre for Earth Evolution (Denmark) on connections between biological evolution and evolving chemistry of the Earth-surface environment.

Current research activities involve investigation of skeletal microstructures and fine morphology of the first biomineralizing animals of the Cambrian, their systematics and biominearlization mechanisms, calibration of first appearances of mineralized skeletons in animal groups with a refined carbon isotope chemostratigraphy, and description of lower-middle Cambrian faunas from Siberia.