Ilya Shabanov
Founder of The Effortless Academic
About
I’m Ilya Shabanov, and after a decade working across industry, web design, and entrepreneurship, I switched paths into academia — and discovered that the real bottleneck wasn’t intelligence, but information overload. I became passionate about building workflows that help researchers process vast scientific literature without getting overwhelmed.
Over the years, I tested dozens of tools and workflows and distilled them into repeatable systems. Today I’m dedicated to teaching scholars how to u...