Project Coordinator

Igor Tetko

Dr. Igor Tetko (scientific coordinator) obtained MSc degree (with honor) from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and PhD in bioorganic chemistry from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1994). He did his postdoctoral study in the University of Lausanne in neuroinformatics. Since 2001 Dr. Tetko is employed at Helmholtz Zentrum München, where he is Chemoinformatics group leader at the Institute of Structural Biology. He is also CEO of BIGCHEM GmbH, which provides informatics solution for big data analysis in life sciences. In 2011 he completed H.D.R (habilitation) in chemoinformatics from the University of Strasbourg. Dr Tetko co-authored more than 200 publications in chemoinformatics, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, computational chemistry, environmental toxicity and machine learning. He was a PI in several international projects (FP7 CADASTER, NATO, INTAS-INFO, etc.) as well as coordinated Virtual Computational Chemistry Laboratory (VCCLAB) , FP7 Marie Curie Innovative Training Network  “Environmental ChemOinformatics” and Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network - European Industrial Doctorate "Big Data in Chemistry". In 2019 he was the General Chair of International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN2019) which had a historical record of  >500 participants. Dr. Tetko received national GO-Bio BMBF awards and was founder and CSO of eADMET GmbH company. His research interests include development of machine learning tools for computer-aided drug discovery and life sciences.