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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018 - Present: Full Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, Canada;
2015 - Present: Associate Director, John L. Holmes Mass Spectrometry Facility
2015 - 2018: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, Canada;
2009 - 2015: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, Canada;
2005 - 2008: NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, the Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Departments of Medical Biophysics and Immunology, University of Toronto, Canada;
1995 - 2000: CEO, Pharmacia of Siberia (Retail Drugstore Company), Tyumen, Russia;
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
2019: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany;
2018: Visiting Professorship at Leiden University Medical Center from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences;
2015: University of Ottawa’s Young Researcher of the Year Award;
2012-2017: Early Research Award from Ministry of Research and Innovation, Ontario, Canada;
2006-2008: Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship;
2005: Best Dissertation in Chemistry, York University, Canada;
2004 - 2005: Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
2001 - 2002: York Entrance Scholarship, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
EDUCATION
PhD in Bioanalytical Chemistry, York University, Department of Chemistry, Toronto, Canada, 2005. Supervisor: Professor Dr. Sergey N. Krylov.
PhD Dissertation: “Kinetic Capillary Electrophoresis and Its Applications”
MSc in Biochemistry, Novosibirsk State University, Russia, 1994. Supervisor: Dr. Tatyana S. Godovikova. MSc Thesis: “Photoaffinity modification of amino acid derivatives of oligonucleotides in complementary complex”
BSc in Chemistry, Novosibirsk State University, Russia, 1993. Supervisor: Dr. Asya S. Levina;
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
2022-Present: Section Editor for Molecular Therapy-Nucleic Acids (an official journal of the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy)
2019-Present: Editorial Member for Cancers (MDPI)
2015-Present: Subject Editor for Analytical and Biomolecular Chemistry, FACETS (Canadian Publishing Group)
2015-Present: Editorial Member for Scientific Reports (Nature Research journal).