Irina Soshnikova is a Senior Lecturer of the Department of Digital and Additive Technologies of Saint Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design.

A designer and art historian by speciality, Irina Anatolievna graduated from the postgraduate program of SPbSUITD. Her main research interests are history and theory of design projects, graphic design, modern fashion industry and ballet.

Irina is a member of the Union of Designers of Russia, an expert of the Worldskills Russia competition in the competence ‘Graphic Design’. She supervises student projects, among which are winners of city, national and international competitions.

Irina’s scientific and research articles are regularly published in periodical scientific editions included in the list of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia and the ‘Russian Science Citation Index’. Irina is an active participant of international and all-Russian scientific and scientific-practical conferences.