On March 25, 2025, Dr. Alexander Shevchenko, a Senior Research Scientist of Samara Center for Theoretical Materials Science, successfully passed the defence of the Habilitation thesis (dissertation consultant – Prof. Vladislav Blatov).Alexander Shevchenko defended Habilitation thesis “Theory and methods of computer geometric-topological analysis and prediction of the structure and physical properties of coordination compounds” in the major 1.4.4. Physical chemistry at the Dissertation council 24.2.377.03 (D 212.217.05) of Samara State Technical University.