Short Biography:

• BSc in Chemistry, High Chemistry College with the Russian Academy of Science, 1998
• MSc in Theoretical Chemistry, High Chemistry College with the Russian Academy of Science, 2000
• PhD (Dr. rer. nat), University of Muenster, Germany, 2004
• Postdoc with Dr. Michelle Coote, ANU, 2004-2006
• Postdoc with Prof. Doug MacFarlane, Monash University, 2006-2007
• Lecturer (Academic Level B), Monash University, 2007-2010
• Senior Lecturer (Academic Level C) and ARC Future Fellow, Monash University, 2011-2015
• Associate Professor (Academic Level D) at Monash University, since 2016

Research areas of interest:

• Development and application of cost-effective computational chemistry methods for studying condensed systems from organic ionic materials to molecular crystals.
• Prediction of thermodynamic and transport properties of condensed systems including melting points, lattice energies, conductivity and viscosity.
• Understanding solvation mechanisms of metal salts in organic ionic materials
• Development of solvation models for the prediction of solubility of organic and inorganic compounds in traditional molecular solvents and ionic materials.
• Studies of kinetics and thermodynamics of chemical reactions, including radical polymerisation and CO₂ chemical absorption, in ionic media.
• Prediction of Redox Potentials of organic and inorganic compounds in ionic and traditional media.
• Control of free-radical polymerisaiton in ionic media
• Use of machine learning in drug design and prediciton of crystal structures
• Coding of developed quantum chemical methods in a program for massively parallel computers

• Development of new computaitonal chemistry methods for studying condensed systems (liquids, moelcular solvents, electrolytes, ionic liquids, plastic crystals, molecular crystals);
• Application of large-scale calcualtions to studying solvation effects, chemical reactivity & thermodyanmic stability.

• CHM3911 Advanced Physical Chemistry Unit: Topics on Computational Chemistry and Thermodynamics
• Honours Module in Computational Chemistry
• Tutorials for CHM1011 and CHM2922