2025–2026 Research Fellow at Department of History, Chair of Eastern European History, Ruhr University Bochum (Germany)
2022–2025 Assistant Professor at Department of Asian Studies, Palacky University Olomouc (Czech Republic)
2019–2022 Key & Excellent Researcher at Palacky University Olomouc (Czech Republic)
2016–2022 Head of the Primorsky Branch at Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
2015–2019 Professor at School of Economics and Management, Far Eastern Federal University (Russia)
2015–2017 Director at Center for Asia-Pacific Studies (CAPS), Far Eastern Federal University (Russia)
2011–2015 (with a break for education). Head of the Amur Branch at Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
1995–2011 Assistant Professor (1995–2000), Associate Professor (2000–2011) at Amur State University (Russia)
Fellowships/ scholarships
2025–2026. Siemens Stiftung Fellowship
Jun–Jul 2017 Isaac Newton Trust Fellowship (Mongolian Inner Asia Studies Unit, Cambridge University, UK)
2013–2014 Overseas Trust, Isaac Newton Trust, and Cambridge Santander Scholarship, MPhil Program, Cambridge University (UK)
Feb–Mar 2010 Visiting Scholar, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (India)
Jan–May 2008 Carnegie Research Fellow (National Council for Eurasian and East European Research), Jackson School for International Studies, University of Washington (US)