**Yury A. Skorik**

Dr. Yury A. Skorik serves as Head of the Laboratory of Natural Polymers at the Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia (principal affiliation) and also as Head of the Analytical Chemistry Department at the Almazov National Medical Research Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia (joint affiliation). He earned his M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry, A.M. Gorky Urals State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia (now the Ural Federal University) in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the same Department and University in 1998. He held postdoctoral positions at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal (2001–2004) and at the Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2004–2005). Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, A.M. Gorky Urals State University (1998–2000), a Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2005–2007), and an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, St. Petersburg State Chemical Pharmaceutical University, St. Petersburg, Russia (2007–2016). Skorik's current research interests focus on the chemical modification and properties of polysaccharides; biopolymer drug and gene delivery systems—polymer–drug conjugates, microand nanoparticles, and polyplexes; and polysaccharide biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine—films, nonwovens, sponges, and gels. To date, Dr. Skorik has co-authored more than 120 peer-reviewed publications (h-index 32 and 2600 total citations—Google Scholar).
