1993, undergraduate studies, N.I. Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod; 1993, BSc, Calvin College; 1998, PhD, University of Southern California. 1998, joined TSRI as Postdoctoral Fellow; 2000, faculty member. 2015, Professor, Department of Chemistry, and Founding Member, The Bridge@USC, Center of the Convergent Bioscience, University of Southern California; research is centred on discovery of new catalytic reactions and chemical reactivity and on applying it to the studies of biological and macromolecular phenomena. Discoveries have contributed to now widely used reactions, such as the copper and ruthenium-catalysed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reactions (CuAAC, often called “click chemistry” and its sister, RuAAC) and catalytic transformations of 1,2,3-triazoles which proceed via the intermediacy of rhodium azavinyl carbene species; laboratory is involved in using these processes in the synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant compounds, probes for cellular and tissue imaging and targeted drug delivery, and functional polymeric materials. Authored and co-authored over one 120 publications, eight book chapters, co-edited a book, and is an inventor on 18 patents and patent applications. Several articles among most cited and accessed papers. Ranked among top ten chemists of the decade worldwide based on impact of published work (2011), Citation Laureate (2013) and named among World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds, Thomson-Reuters (2015 and 2016). Expertise: organic chemistry, catalysis and chemical biology.