Biography

Ekaterina Skorb did her PhD in Physical Chemistry. Now she is a Full Professor, Director of Infochemistry Scientific Center (ISC) at ITMO University. She was a postdoc and Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG, Germany) with Prof. Helmuth Möhwald. From 2013 she worked with Prof. Peter Fratzl (MPIKG) as a Group Leader. She was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard (USA) in Prof. George Whitesides group (2016-2017). From 2017 she is working at ITMO University. An interdisciplinary view on the problems from various directions – chemistry, mathematics, IT, and biology – helps to solve complex issues and guide science development for the next generation. There are several ambitious projects running now at ISC ITMO University: synthetic cell, chemical computer, chemical origins-of-life as well as sensor, lab-on-a-chip, and implants development.