Senior Scientist
SpecPro, Inc.
3909 Halls Ferry Road
Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180-6199
601-634-3863
E-mai: lgorb@icnanotox.org
| EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND | |
| Dr. Sci., Chemistry, 2008 | Karazin Kharkiv State University, Kharkiv, Ukraine |
| Ph. D., Chemistry, 1983 | Institute of Organic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR |
| M. S., Chemistry, 1976 | Dnepropetrovsk State University, Dnepropetrovsk, USSR |
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
| 2005-Present | Senior Scientist, SpecPro Inc, Vicksburg, Mississippi |
| 2005-Present | Executive Director, Ukrainian-American Laboratory of Computational Chemistry |
| 2006-Present 2001-2005 | Adjunct Professor, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. Visiting Research Professor, Jackson State University, Mississippi |
| 1996-2001 | Research Associate, Jackson State University, Mississippi |
| 1994-1996 | Associate Professor, University of ‘Kiev-Mohila Academy’, Kiev, Ukraine |
| 1984-1997 | Head of the Group of Quantum-Chemistry , Institute of Colloid and Water Chemistry, Kiev, USSR |
| 1976-1980 | Research Assistant, Polymer Institute, Donetsk, USSR |
| PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES | |
| Referee | Journal of Physical Chemistry Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics Journal of Molecular Structure (Theochem) International Journal of Molecular Science Structural Chemistry Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry Journal of Molecular Modeling European Journal of Soil Science Journal of Chemical Information and Modelling |
| AWARDS and HONORS | |
| 1993 | Award of the USSR branch of World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists for the work: “Quantum-Mechanical and Statistical Theory of Solutions” |
| 1999 – Present | Member of American Chemical Society |
| 1991-1994 | The Fellowship of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) for the Participation in the Project “Modeling of the Chemical Reactivity on the Border of Water -Solid Interface” |
| 2005, 2007, 2009 | Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Symposiums on “Methods and Applications of Computational Chemistry,” Kharkov,Ukraine. |
| 2009 | S.M. Gershenson Award of National Academy of Sciencies of Ukraine for the work “Quantum-Chemical Nature of Spontaneous Point Mutations in DNA”. |