The agreement was signed by Konstantin Astankov, the deputy head of ITMO’s Technology Transfer Center. Overall, the consortium welcomed 23 institutions of higher, secondary, and general education, institutes of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and authorities of the Novosibirsk Oblast.
The Siberian Ring Photon Source (SKIF) is a synchrotron radiation facility under construction in the science city Koltsovo near Novosibirsk, Russia. The new synchrotron, or ring particle accelerator, is intended to surpass its analogs worldwide in terms of emittance, which determines radiation brightness and hence research quality. At the facility, scientists want to investigate the structure of diverse organic and inorganic substances, as well as to solve problems in genetics, pharmacology, biomedicine, geochemistry, aircraft construction, space, energy, and the oil and gas industry.
SKIF is a collective-use facility that will be open to Russian and international research teams, including the consortium members, who will be able to run experiments using SKIF’s stations and develop equipment for the center. To train engineers and researchers for SKIF and other Russian megascience facilities, the partners will create textbooks, educational programs, and teaching aids, as well as hold summer schools for senior students and advanced training courses for university, college, and school teachers at the center.
