Ph.D. in Polymer Physics and Mechanics. Thesis: "Description of
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Polymer Chains on the Basis of Ising-like
Models", defended in Moscow
Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia. Supervising Professor
Leonid I. Manevitch.
State Scientific Scholarship for Gifted Young Scientists of Russia (in Russian,
Государственная научная стипендия для талантливых молодых ученых России)
has been awarded by Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences three times: in 1995,
1996, and 1998. (As many as ca. 80 Scholarships in the field of Chemistry have been
awarded every year).