Dr Nadezhda Mamontova's research discusses the role of geological maps in the production of 'resources' in Soviet Russia, with the focus on the debates among leading Soviet geologists on the essence of geological matter and the ways of its cartographic imagination. She is also interested in the history of knowledge co-production between Indigenous people and researchers in the Russian Arctic and Siberia. Currently, Mamontova is the Principal Investigator for the project ‘GIS-based community-oriented Indigenous Evenki toponymic platform’, supported by the Research Strategic Initiatives Grant (RSIG), Canada. 

Dr Nadia Mamontova is currently a Newton International Fellow. Before coming to the UK she was a collegium researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, Finland, and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow with the Geography Program at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. In 2020, she completed a PhD at the University of Oxford in the School of Geography and the Environment. Before that she earned a PhD in History (Social Anthropology) from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. She has two Master's degrees with honours in Social Anthropology and Altaic Studies from the Russian State University for the Humanities (2009) and the University of Helsinki (2015). Since 2007, she carried out fourteen field expeditions among the Evenki and other Indigenous communities in the Russian North. 

Dr Mamontova has long been involved in research with indigenous communities of the North. Her research projects have focused on indigenous language documentation, place names, vernacular cartography, and co-production of knowledge. As a social anthropologist, Mamontova served as an invited specialist on indigenous matters for the European Council, Russian Ministry for Regional Development, and Exxon Neftegas Company.