Igor Kuzmanovski

Name: Igor Kuzmanovski
Date of birth: 21.07.1971
Place of birth: Skopje, Macedonia
Nationality: Macedonian
E-mail: shigor(at)iunona.pmf.ukim.edu.mk / igor(at)hemija.net
Address: Arhimedova 5, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
Telephone: +389-2-3249938
Fax: +389-2-3226865

Education:

• 1986–1990 – Secondary school of chemistry and chemical technology “Marie Curie Sklodowska” in Skopje;
• 1991–1996 – University “Sts. Cyril and Methodius”, Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics in Skopje, at the Institute of Chemistry (GPA 9.35/10.00);
• 1996–2001 – Postgraduate student at the Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics in Skopje, Institute of Chemistry – specialising analytical chemistry/chemometrics (GPA 9.83/10.00);
• 2006–2007 - Postdoctoral studies at National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia and University of Bern, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The field of research: An Integrated Biomimetic Approach to Asymmetric Catalysis - Development of Quantitative Structure-Enantioselectivity Relationships for catalytic dendrimers.

• B.Sc. in chemistry: Vibrational spectra of magnesium hydrogen phosphate three hydrate & manganese hydrogen phosphate three hydrate
  (Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, April 1996)
• M.Sc. thesis:  Application of some chemometric methods for analysis of the composition of urinary calculi
  (Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, January 2002)
• Ph.D. thesis: Chemometric analysis of urinary calculi (PDF: Macedonian, English)
  (Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, June 2005).

Teaching:

• Chemometrics.

Experience with chemometric techniques:

Research fellowships:

• 2006–2007: Marie Curie fellowship in the framework of IBAAC project - postdoc position at National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Visiting researcher:

• Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria;
• National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Working experience out of University:

• Installation and training for few different types of UV/Vis spectrometers
  (Analytik Jena – Carl Ziess, Germany),
• Member of the commission for Analytical Chemistry at the Young Researchers completion organized by Association of Technical Culture of Macedonia  (Since 1998) ,
• Web design: Hemija.net - www.hemija.net (2000), Farmahem -  www.farmahem.com.mk (2002), Center for Foreign Languages - www.csj-skopje.com (2003), Borjan.net - www.borjan.net (2003),
  Institute of Chemistry (this website) - www.pmf.ukim.edu.mk/PMF/Chemistry/ (2003) ICOSECS 5- http://www.hemija.net/icosecs5/ (2005)

Selected  publications:

• Igor Kuzmanovski, Zlatko Zografski, Mira Trpkovska, Bojan Šoptrajanov and Viktor Stefov, SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF COMPOSITION OF HUMAN URINARY CALCULI BY ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS, Fresenius’ J. of Anal. Chem. 370, 919-923 (2001).
• Igor Kuzmanovski, Slobotka Aleksovska OPTIMIZATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR PREDICTION OF THE UNIT CELL PARAMETERS IN ORTHORHOMBIC PEROVSKITES. COMPARISON WITH MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 67, 167-174 (2003).
• Igor Kuzmanovski, Mira Trpkovska, Bojan Šoptrajanov and Viktor Stefov DETERMINATION OF THE COMPOSITION OF HUMAN URINARY CALCULI COMPOSED OF WHEWELLITE, WEDDELLITE AND CARBONATE APATITE USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS, Anal. Chim. Acta, 491, 211-218 (2003).
• Igor Kuzmanovski, Mirjana Ristova, Bojan Šoptrajanov, Viktor Stefov, Vlado Popovski, DETERMINATION OF THE COMPOSITION OF SIALOLITHS COMPOSED OF CARBONATE APATITE AND ALBUMIN USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS, Talanta, 62, 813-817 (2004).
• Sandra Dimitrovska, Slobotka Aleksovska, Igor Kuzmanovski, PREDICTION OF THE UNIT CELL PARAMETER OF CUBIC A₂²⁺BB'O₆ PEROVSKITES BY MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS, Central Eur. J. Chem., 3 (1) 198-215 (2005).
• Igor Kuzmanovski, Mira Trpkovska, Bojan Šoptrajanov, OPTIMIZATION OF SUPERVISED SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS WITH GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF URINARY CALCULI, J. Mol. Struct., 744-747, 833-838 (2005).
• Vinka Tanevska, Igor Kuzmanovski, Orhideja Grupče, PROVENANCE DETERMINATION OF VINICA TERRA COTTA ICONS USING SELF-ORGANISING MAPS, Annaly de Chimica, 97 (7) 541–552 (2007).
• Igor Kuzmanovski, Sandra Dimitrovska-Lazova, Slobotka Aleksovska, CLASSIFICATION OF PEROVSKITES WITH SUPERVISED SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS, Anal. Chim. Acta, 595, 182–189 (2007).

Total number of published articles: 29

The most recent participation on conferences and congresses:

•  PHP – MySQL PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS, 17th Congress of Chemists & Technologists of Macedonia (with international participation), Skopje, 2002
•  Igor Kuzmanovski, Ana Madevska-Bogdanova, Mira Trpkovska, MULTICATEGORY SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES FOR CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN URINARY CALCULI, 14th International Symposium Spectroscopy in Theory and Practice, 29, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 2005. (invited lecture).
• Bojan Šoptrajanov, Igor Kuzmanovski and Mira Trpkovska, VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPIC AND CHEMOMETRIC STUDIES OF URINARY CALCULI, 1st European Conference on Chemistry for Life Sciences (Understanding the Chemical Mechanisms of Life), Book of abstracts, Rimini, Italy, 2005.
• Igor Kuzmanovski and Goran Stojković, QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIP STUDY OF PREDICTION OF PKBH+ FOR SERIES OF AMIDES USING COUNTER-PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS AND GENETIC ALGORITHAMS, 5th International conference of the Chemical Societies of the South-Eastern Europeans Countries, Book of Abstracts, 57, NH-P05, Ohrid, Macedonia, 2006.
• Igor Kuzmanovski, Marjana Novič, Mira Trpkovska, AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF DIFFERENT INPUT VARIABLES FOR OPTIMIZATION OF COUNTER-PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS, 10th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry, Book of Abstracts, P058, Águas de Lindóia, Brazil, 2006.
• Igor Kuzmanovski , Sacha Javor, Jean-Louis Reymond, Marjana Novič, CHEMOMETRIC APPROACH IN OPTIMIZATION OF DENDRIMERS IN ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS, 14th International Symposium Spectroscopy in Theory and Practice, 65, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 2007.

Total number of presentations on conferences and congresses: 46

Books:

• L. Šoptrajanova, M. Stefova & I. Kuzmanovski, SOURCES OF INFORMATION FOR CHEMISTS, Prosvetno delo, Skopje, 1999. (language: Macedonian)

Computer skills:

• Excellent knowledge of Matlab, Mathcad, Grams 32 Spectral Notebase, HyperChem, ChemOffice, Basic and Microsoft Word;
• Good in using PHP (web programming), mySQL (databases), Visual Basic, Microsoft Excel;
• Experience with Visual Basic, Java, Gaussian 94.

Activities:

• Editor and founder of the first Macedonian webzine for popularization of chemistry – Hemija.net (http://www.hemija.net/);
• Editor and founder of the Macedonian Internet directory of links for chemists – Link.Hemija.net (http://link.hemija.net/);
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the ICOSECS5 – 5th International Conference of Southeastern European Chemical Societies.
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the First Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry for Students of Macedonia;
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the XV Congress of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia;
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Third Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry for Students of Macedonia;

Other:

• Reviewer for: Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Analytica Chimica Acta, Journal of Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy Letters,;
• Hemija.net won the second place (in one of the categories) in the competition for the best Macedonian web site organized by PlugIn – Macedonian magazine for popularization of computers (results: http://www.baltok.com/plugin/rezultati.php - content in Cyrillic);
• Experience in modeling of simple theoretical models of oscillating reaction using Mathcad;
• Author of the official poster for XVII Congress of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia;
• Writing poetry.