User:Arteum

My name is Arteum, I earned a PhD in quantum chemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006. I spent over three years at Columbia University as a postdoc. Currently I'm employed at a drug discovery software company named Schrödinger. I live in Midtown Manhattan.

My interests include quantum chemistry, theoretical physics, mathematics, biological sciences (especially biochemistry, molecular cell biology, neuroscience, genetics and genomics), literature in the form of novels and plays (including science fiction), linguistics (particularly typology), languages (I speak English, Ukrainian, Russian, and French fluently), chess, progressive rock, heavy metal, and classical music. I am striving to improve my knowledge of Swedish, Czech and Polish languages.

My computer-related fields of interest include Linux, C, Python, Django, SQL, LaTeX, git.

I am an atheist and an aspiring writer.

The famous people who greatly influenced me intellectually are:


 * John Fowles
 * W. Somerset Maugham
 * David Gilmour
 * Lev Landau
 * Anatoly Karpov
 * Garry Kasparov
 * Émile Zola
 * Honoré de Balzac
 * Stanisław Lem
 * Andrew S. Tanenbaum
 * Greg Egan
 * Johannes Brahms
 * Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 * Daniel C. Dennett
 * Anton Bruckner
 * Noam Chomsky
 * Knut Hamsun

Here is my (incomplete) A-list of novels (in no particular order):


 * Бесы (Demons) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 * Идиот (The Idiot) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 * Село Степанчиково и его обитатели (The Village of Stepanchikovo) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 * Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham
 * The Magus by John Fowles
 * The Collector by John Fowles
 * La Fortune des Rougon (La Fortune des Rougon) by Émile Zola
 * La Conquête de Plassans (La Conquête de Plassans) by Émile Zola
 * L'Assommoir (L'Assommoir) by Émile Zola
 * Le Rouge et Le Noir (The Red and the Black) by Stendhal
 * Les Nourritures Terrestres (Les nourritures terrestres) by André Gide
 * La Chute (The Fall) by Albert Camus
 * La Nausée (Nausea) by Jean-Paul Sartre
 * Что делать? (What Is to Be Done?) by Nikolay Chernyshevsky
 * Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
 * Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett
 * Diaspora by Greg Egan
 * Les Illusions Perdues (Lost Illusions) by Honoré de Balzac
 * Le Père Goriot (Le Père Goriot) by Honoré de Balzac
 * Le Colonel Chabert (Le Colonel Chabert) by Honoré de Balzac
 * The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
 * Обломов (Oblomov) by Ivan Goncharov