On Monday 4 March 2024 and at our after-school tutorial sessions, Academic Academy students had the wonderful opportunity to meet and be taught by our new Academic Academy mentor and tutor, Dr Yuri Anissimov, who is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at Griffith University and continues his research and casual lecturing for Maths and Physics. 

At A.B. Paterson College, Yuri says that he: "will share his enthusiasm for Science (Maths and Physics in particular) and will try to motivate students to achieve their best in learning Science and promote the fun of equations and the Physics around us". 

Context and Biography details of Dr Yuri Anissimov

According to Dr Yuri, he completed his undergraduate degree (MSc, Theoretical Physics, with Distinction) at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, one of the leading universities in Physics in Russia. His PhD research on Mathematical Modelling of Liver Kinetics was at the University of Queensland School of Mathematics. Yuri has done his postdoctoral research on modelling of drug transport through skin in the world leading group in this area of research (director Professor Michael Roberts) based at the School of Medicine University of Queensland. Dr Anissimov then worked as an Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics at the School of Environment and Science Griffith University for 15 years. During this time he taught Mathematics to Engineering and Science students and carried out research in drug transport through skin (think nicotine patch), modelling of liver pharmacokinetics and drug release from biodegradable polymers. Dr Yuri has authored 87 scientific journal publications and 6 book chapters, which attracted more than 4000 citations. His research potentially leads to developing more efficient and safer drug delivery technologies and improved topical pharmaceutical and cosmetic products for systemic and topical applications; improving risk assessment for dermal exposure to environmental substances and better protection strategies; and minimising animal and human experimentation associated with dermal product development and testing.

CATHERINE RIDDLE | HEAD OF ACADEMIC ACADEMY