ABOUT ME
APPLICATIONS AND POSITIONS
Igor Baskin received his PhD (kandidat nauk) in organic chemistry (1990) and habilitation (doctor nauk) in computational chemistry (2010) from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. After holding several positions at the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics and Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, he joined in 2001 Lomonosov Moscow State University, where since 2005 he holds the position of a Leading Scientist. He is regularly engaged as Visiting Scientist and Invited Professor at the University of Strasbourg, France. He is a co-author of 6 textbooks and more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters related to chemoinformatics, artificial neural networks, medicinal chemistry, as well as molecular modeling of biological receptors and supramolecular systems. Igor Baskin is a member of the International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry since 2009. His current work focuses on the use of artificial intelligence (machine learning) in chemoinformatics, drug discovery and materials science.
2021-until now
Senior research scientist, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 3200003 Haifa, Israel
2013-2020
Leading researcher, group leader, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation
2015-2020
Senior researcher, Butlerov Institute of Chemistry, Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Russian Federation
2001-2013
Senior and leading researcher, Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation
1994-2001
Senior researcher, Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
1988-1994
Research engineer and researcher, Department of Photochemistry, Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR and Russian Federation
INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY
2005-2020
Visiting scientist and invited professor (several times), Chemistry Faculty, Strasbourg University, France
EDUCATION
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
Chemoinformatics and its connection with drug discovery, materials science and electrochemistry
Artificial intelligence, machine learning (neural networks and deep learning, kernel-based and Bayesian methods, etc) and data science in chemistry and materials science
Relationships between structures and properties of chemical compounds (QSAR/QSPR), including reactivity
Computational and medicinal chemistry, molecular modeling of proteins and protein-ligand interactions, docking, molecular dynamics, virtual screening, de novo molecular design
2010
Habilitation in mathematical and computational chemistry (doctor fiziko-matematicheskikh nauk), Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chemistry Department
1990
Ph.D. in organic chemistry (kandidat khimicheskikh nauk), Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chemistry Department
1984-1987
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chemistry Department, post-graduate course
1979-1984
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chemistry Department, student