- Dgebuadze Yury Yulianovich – Chief Researcher, Academician of the RAS, Professor, Dr. Sci. (Biol.) – ecology, fish fauna, biological invasions of alien species, microevolution, recording structures, fish growth.
- Kotov Aleksey Alekseyevich – Chief Researcher, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Professor of the RAS, Corresponding Member of the RAS. Morphology, systematics, zoogeography, paleontology, phylogeography, and evolution of the world fauna of Cladocera; paleolimnology; general problems in the history of the formation of continental water body biodiversity; Quaternary ecology; invasive species.
- Korovchinsky Nikolay Mikhaylovich – Leading Researcher, Dr. Sci. (Biol.). Morphology, systematics, faunistics, and zoogeography of the world fauna of Cladocera of the orders Ctenopoda, Onychopoda, Haplopoda; monitoring studies of lake zooplankton; history of science.
- Artamonova Valentina Sergeyevna – Leading Researcher, Cand. Sci. (Biol.). Adaptive processes in populations of aquatic organisms, phylogeography.
- Boykova Olga Sergeyevna – Senior Researcher, Cand. Sci. (Biol.). Morphology, embryology, evolution of Cladocera; monitoring studies of lake zooplankton.
- Bekker Yevgenia Igorevna – Researcher, Cand. Sci. (Biol.). Systematics of Cladocera of the genus Eurycercus, phylogeography of water fleas.
- Neretina Anna Nikolayevna – Cand. Sci. (Biol.), Researcher. Systematics, faunistics, zoogeography of Cladocera.
- Garibyan Petr Grigoryevich – Researcher. Systematics and faunistics of Cladocera of Northern Eurasia.
- Zharov Anton Aleksandrovich – Acting Researcher. Paleolimnology, taphonomy of water fleas.
- Makhrov Aleksandr Anatolyevich – Senior Researcher, Cand. Sci. (Biol.). Factors determining the rate of evolution of living organisms, genetic and evolutionary aspects of alien species invasions.
- Bashinsky Ivan Viktorovich – Senior Researcher, Cand. Sci. (Biol.). Amphibian ecology, impact of alien species on aquatic and semi-aquatic ecosystems.
- Benkovskaya Marina Yakovlevna – Senior Researcher, Dr. Sci. (Biol.). Invasions of alien insect species, insect systematics.
- Katsman Yelena Aleksandrovna – Senior Researcher, Cand. Sci. (Biol.). Vegetation cover of aquatic and semi-aquatic ecosystems.
- Mironovsky Aleksandr Nikolayevich – Senior Researcher, Cand. Sci. (Biol.). Fish morphology and diversification.
- Chernyaev Zherar Aleksandrovich – Senior Researcher, Dr. Sci. (Biol.). Fish ecology and ontogeny.
- Prokofyev Artem Mikhaylovich – Senior Researcher, Cand. Sci. (Biol.). Systematics, morphology and fauna of fish and insects.
- Kurina Yekaterina Mikhaylovna – Acting Researcher, Cand. Sci. (Biol.). Ecology and genetics of aquatic organisms.
- Neymark Leonid Aleksandrovich – Junior Researcher. Herpetology, distribution, range dynamics and ecology of reptiles.
- Izyumova Yekaterina Ivanovna – Junior Researcher, postgraduate student. Quaternary beetle communities of Northeastern Eurasia.
- Neplyukhina Alisa Aleksandrovna – Junior Researcher, postgraduate student. Holocene history of diatom communities of the Commander-Aleutian island chain.