RESUME
Work
is love made visible. And if you cannot work with
love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should
leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and
take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran
love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should
leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and
take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran
Objective
| • | A tenure-track position in a multidisciplinary chemistry department that would allow for adequate time and funding to supervise research of undergraduate or/and graduate students |
| • | A leading research position in a computational group of a company specializing in development of novel pharmaceuticals, biomedical products or biomaterials |
Education
2003 Doctor of Philosophy - Chemistry
Dalhousie
University, Halifax, NS, Canada (2000-2003)
Thesis: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of 1,2-Disubstituted (Hydroxy- and Amino-) Ethanes: Pure Molecular Liquids and Their Aqueous Solutions
Supervisor: Prof. P.G. Kusalik
Thesis: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of 1,2-Disubstituted (Hydroxy- and Amino-) Ethanes: Pure Molecular Liquids and Their Aqueous Solutions
Supervisor: Prof. P.G. Kusalik
2000 Master of Science - Chemistry
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS,
Canada (1998-2000)
Thesis: Determination of the Local Electrical Field and the Total Molecular Dipole Moment for Liquid Water
Supervisor: Prof. P.G. Kusalik
Thesis: Determination of the Local Electrical Field and the Total Molecular Dipole Moment for Liquid Water
Supervisor: Prof. P.G. Kusalik
1993 Doctor of Philosophy - Physics & Mathematics
B. Verkin Institute for Low
Temperature Physics and Engineering (ILTPE)
Ukrainian National Academy of Science (UNAS), Kharkov, Ukraine (1988-1993)
Ukrainian National Academy of Science (UNAS), Kharkov, Ukraine (1988-1993)
1981 Master of Science (Bachelor of Science integrated) - Biophysics
V. Karazin Kharkov National
University, School of Radiophysics,
Department of Molecular Biophysics, Kharkov, Ukraine (1976-1981)
Department of Molecular Biophysics, Kharkov, Ukraine (1976-1981)
1981 University Diploma of Art Critic
V. Karazin Kharkov National
University, School of Community Professions (3 years program), Kharkov,
Ukraine
Employment history
| 2009-present | Adjunct professor Department of Chemistry and Physics, Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax, NS, Canada) |
| 2007-2008 | Research associate Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology / New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ, USA) |
| 2005-2007 | Post-doctoral research associate, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology / New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ, USA) |
| 2003-2005 | Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, (Halifax, Canada) |
| 1998-2002 | Teaching assistant and marker for undergraduate courses, Department of Chemistry & Dalhousie Integrated Science Program (DISP), Dalhousie University, (Halifax, Canada) |
| 1997 | Research assistant, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, (Halifax, Canada) |
| 1997-2001 | Senior research associate (contract 4.04/0075), Special Engineering Bureau, ILTPE (Kharkov, Ukraine) |
| 1996-1997 | Senior research associate Department of Molecular Modeling, I. Mechnikov Scientific Research Institute for Microbiology and Immunology (Kharkov, Ukraine) |
1989-1996 Junior research associate, Department of Molecular Biophysics, ILTPE, (Kharkov, Ukraine)
1981-1989 Engineer / research assistant, Department of Molecular Biophysics, ILTPE, (Kharkov, Ukraine)
Research Interests
| • | Theoretical studies (molecular dynamics simulations) of supramolecular systems / processes e.g., structure and function of membrane channels, amyloidosis associated with Alzheimer’s disease |
| • | Utilization of machine-learning algorithms in solving chemistry-relevant problems (e.g., prediction of physicochemical and biorelevant properties of new materials, prediction of propensity for amyloid fibril formation etc.) |
• Current research interests include:
| o | investigation of structure and dynamics in biodegradable polymers (hydration effects, liquid crystalline behavior, phase transitions) |
o theoretical prediction of protein adsorption onto and cellular response to the polymer surfaces
o generation of large (up to 40000 compounds) virtual combinatorial libraries of novel biodegradable polymers
Professional expertise
• Computational chemistry:
| o | proficient in ab initio, molecular dynamics and molecular mechanics computer simulations and applications of machine-learning algorithms: decision trees, artificial neural networks (ANN) and polynomial neural networks (PNN) |
| o | experienced in utilization of corresponding state-of-art commercial and free-distributed simulation packages on Unix, Linux, SGI, Windows and MacOS platforms such as Gaussian, Cerius2, Materials Studio, Molecular Operating Environment (MOE), MacroModel, HyperChem, CHARMM, DL-POLY, MDynaMix, WEKA |
o
familiar with IR
spectroscopy, mass spectrometry
and X-ray powder diffraction methods
Conferences, workshops, visits etc.
| 2007 | 16-th Canadian Symposium on Theoretical
Chemistry (St. John’s, NL, Canada) |
| 2007 |
90-th Canadian Chemistry
Conference and Exhibition, invited speaker for the symposium on
Biocomputational Chemistry (Winnipeg, MN, Canada)
|
2006 8-th Symposium on Biomaterials Science (New Brunswick, NJ, USA)
2006 6-th Canadian Computational Chemistry Conference, (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
2006 89-th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (Halifax, NS, Canada)
2006 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
2004 15-th Canadian Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry (Québec, Canada)
| 2001 |
Invited visitor in Division
of Physical Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory of Stockholm University
(Stockholm, Sweden)
|
2000 16-th IUPAC Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics (Halifax, NS, Canada)
| 1996 | NATO ASI Summer School on Crystal Engineering (Digby, NS, Canada)1996 7-th College on Biophysics: Structure and Function of Biopolymers (Trieste, Italy) |
1996 12-th Conference in Coordinational and Supramolecular Chemistry (Chishinau, Moldova)
1995 International Conference in Microbiology and Immunology (Kharkov, Ukraine)
| 1994 | International conference on Powder Diffraction and Crystal Chemistry (St. Petersburg, Russsia) |
1991 5-th All-Union Conference in Low Temperature Chemistry (Moscow, USSR)
1988 International Conference in Cryobiology and Cryomedicine (Kharkov, USSR)
1986,1989,1990,1991 18-th, 20-th, 21-th, 22-th Conferences of Young Scientists (ILTPE, Kharkov, USSR)
1982 1-st All-Union Biophysical Congress (Moscow, USSR)
Grants, awards, achievements
| 1997 | The academic rank of Senior Research Associate in Biophysics was awarded and certified by Higher Certifying Board of the Ukraine |
| 1997 | Ukrainian State Foundation for Fundamental Investigations, Long-Term Research Grant (Principal Investigator) |
| 1996 | NATO travel grant to participate in NATO ASI Summer School on Crystal Engineering (Digby, NS, Canada) |
| 1996 | Travel award from International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Italy to attend the 7-th College on Biophysics: Structure and Function of Biopolymers |
1994 International Science Foundation (ISF), Long-Term Research Grant (U2J000)
1993 ISF, Long-Term Research Grant (U2J200)
Professional Memberships
Since 2004 Member, American Chemical Society
Since 1999 Member, Chemical Institute of Canada