CV
Education and Qualifications
2013 – 2021
Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Materials Science and Solid-State Chemistry. Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
Defended: 17.11.2021, Urkunde 01.12.2021
Title: "Nanostructured Composite Materials: From Biological and Bioinspired Materials to Nanoparticle Assemblies"
10/2005 – 18/02/2010
Candidate of Science in Geology and Mineralogy (equivalent of PhD and Dr. degrees). Specialization "Crystallography and Mineralogy". Department of Crystallography, Geological Faculty, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
Defended: 18.02.2010
Title "Crystal chemistry and morphogenesis of natural and biomimetic apatite-(CaF)-organic composites"
Supervisor: Prof. Olga V. Frank-Kamenetskaya
03/2007 – 02/2010
Visiting Research Scholar (within PhD project), Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kniep
09/2000 – 07/2005
Diploma degree in Chemistry (equivalent of M.S. degree), Chemical Faculty, Department of Inorganic Chemistry,
F. M. Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Omsk, Russia.
Advisor: Prof. Olga A. Golovanova
Grade: 5.0 (5.0=best)
09/1990 – 06/2000
Gymnasium (High School) 9, scientific profile, Omsk, Russia.
Grade: 5.0 (5.0=best) Silver Medal
Academic Appointments
since 01.01.2022
Professor W2 (tenure track) of Applied Mineralogy: Geomaterials in Technology and Environment. Crystallography Section, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich.
03/2013 – 2021
Group leader and Habilitandin at the Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany (since 01.01.2021 – associated).
Host: Prof. Dr. Helmut Cölfen
01/2021 – 12/2021
Associated Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg/ Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
02/2018 – 12/2020
Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg/ Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
03/2013 – 02/2018
Research fellow of the Zukunftskolleg/ Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
10/2012 – 03/2014
Postdoctoral Researcher, DFG Individual Grant (RO 4511/1-1). Department of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
Host: Prof. Dr. Helmut Cölfen
03/2010 – 09/2012
Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kniep
03/2007-10/2008, 04 – 05/2009, 01 – 03/2010
Research Assistant, Visiting Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kniep
01/2007 – 02/2007
Research Assistant, Visiting Research Scholar, Institute of Geography and Geological Sciences, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
Supervisor: Dr. J. Kasbohm
2006 – 2009
Research Assistant, Institute of Earth Crust, Geological Faculty, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Advisor: Prof. Olga V. Frank-Kamenetskaya
Awards and Fellowships
08/2020
Emerging Investigators 2020 issue, Journal of Materials Chemistry C (J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020,
8, 10490).
07-12/2020
"Konstanzia Transition" funded by the Equal Opportunity Council.
06-07/2017
Research fellow, Department of Chemistry and Molecular Design Institute, New York University, New York City, United States. Host: Prof. Bart Kahr, Res. Prof. Alexander Shtukenberg, Prof. Michael Ward.
2013 – 2018
Zukunftskolleg Research Fellowship, Zukunftskolleg University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
2007- 2010
Visiting Research Scholar, MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.
2009
Award of the Russian Geological Society and Federal Subsoil Use Agency in the field of science and innovation technology, Moscow, Russia.
10/2009
Award of the Russian Mineralogical Society "Outstanding scientific research of young scientists" Saint Petersburg, Russia.
10/2008
Award of the Russian Mineralogical Society "The Best Scientific Presentation of Young Scientists" ("Fedorov Session"), Saint Petersburg, Russia.
2003 – 2004
Scholarship of Government of Russian Federation for the graduate and postgraduate students. Ministry of Education and Science of Russia.
2002 – 2003
Scholarship of President of Russian Federation for the graduate and postgraduate students. Ministry of Education and Science of Russia.