Arcady Putilov

Arcady Putilov is a chronobiologist associated with the Research Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics (Novosibirsk). He began studying rhythmic phenomena in animal behavior and then extended his interests to investigation of rhythmic processes in the fields of biochemistry, physiology, differential psychology, psychiatry, medicine, ecology, and history. The results of his early researches were summarized in the monograph Systemforming Function of Synchronization in the Living Nature (“Nauka” 1997). Along with more recent scientific articles on chronobiology, he published two books appealing to lay audience (”Larks”, “Owls” and Others, Novosibirsk University Press and “Soverschenstvo”, 1987, and Biorhythmic Personality, Siberian University Press, 2003). For more than 12 years, Dr. Putilov is a member of editorial board of Biological Rhythm Research (Former Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research). He is lecturing at the Novosibirsk State University and Classical Institute (Novosibirsk), and working at the textbook on comparative and evolutionary psychology (see textbook projects). Dr. Putilov has launched the Siberian Indian Summer Schools on Human Ethology in 2002, and participated in the 2^nd Summer School on Human Ethology (Puschino near Moscow, 2002) with the lecture: Chronobiology and Evolutionary Psychology of Seasonal Depression.