Curriculum Vitae

Yury Nikolaevich Vorobjev

Education

1966 Physics- Mathematical School 165, USSR Novosibirsk

1971 B.Sc. in Physics, Novosibirsk State University of USSR, Novosibirsk

1978 Ph.D. in Phys.- Math. Sci., Institute of Semiconductors of the Siberian Branch of Academy of Sci. of USSR, Novosibirsk

1988 Senior Scientist Diploma, Supreme Committee of Acad.Sci. of USSR

1999 Doctor of Science, Phys.-Math. Sci., Institute of Computational

Mathematics, Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russia

Professional Experience

2001 - … Leading Researcher Institute of Biological Chemistry and Fundamental

medicine Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russia

1995-2001 Senior Researcher , Dep. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.

1990-1995 Visiting Scientist, Cornell University, Baker Lab., with prof. H.A.Scheraga. Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.

1985-1990 Senior Researcher, Novosibirsk Institute of Bioorganic Chem., Siberian

Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, USSR

1978-1985 Researcher Novosibirsk Institute of Bioorganic Chem., Siberian

Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, USSR

1972-1978 Minor researcher Novosibirsk Institute of Bioorganic Chem., Siberian

Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, USSR

1971-1972 Grad. Student, Moscow Institute of Crystallography, Moskow, USSR

Research Interest

Development of Advanced Computational Methods for Theoretical studies of

structure, function and dynamics of biopolymers.

Electrostatic effects.

Drug design.

More than 60 publications including the following published in the last 10 years

J. A. Vila, D. R. Ripoll, Y. A. Arnautova,Y. N. Vorobjev, H. A. Scheraga. 2005.

Coupling Between Conformation and Proton Binding in Proteins. PROTEINS:

Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 61:56–68.