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• Master of Sports Anastasia Murzina: “Orienteering Helps Better Understand Multidimensional Space”

  It is quite common that a favorite hobby or sports activity helps one solve research tasks. Einstein, for instance, often played music while contemplating his ideas. ITMO Master’s student Anastasia Murzina focuses on chemoinformatics and works for the Computer Technologies international laboratory. In her free time, she’s already travelled all over Russia and became a Master of Sports in orienteering. We spoke to Anastasia about how orienteering helps her solve research tasks, what kinds of knowledge are most relevant for a programmer, and why sport and science have a lot more in common than one would think.

  18.09.2018

• Chemoinformatics in ITMO: From Individual Projects to A University of Strasbourg Diploma

  Last year ITMO University launched a new Master's Degree program - Chemoinformatics and Molecular Modeling. There are few such programs in Russia - those that train specialists who will work in modern pharmacology and deal with such things as computer-aided drug design, predicting of compounds' properties and working with new materials on a molecular level. ITMO conducts its program in collaboration with the University of Strasbourg, and its best graduates can continue their education in France and get a University of Strasbourg diploma as well as ITMO's one. Yuri Prozorov, Head of the International Laboratory of Structural Bioinformatics, shared about the new program and why intelligent analysis of chemical data becomes more and more popular.

  08.06.2017