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• Pakistani Physicist Mustafa Haider on New Paths for AI Data Centers, Working in Russia, and St. Petersburg Metro

  Mustafa Haider, a physicist from Pakistan, has overcome his share of hardships throughout his career. First when he managed to enroll at a prestigious university thanks to new admission rules, and then when the world closed down for COVID-19 and his international postdoc turned into isolation with uncertain prospects. Eventually, he found himself in the industry, where research ideas became commercial products. Since then, he has worked in China, where a chance encounter with a Russian professor brought him to St. Petersburg and, more specifically, ITMO, where he is now working on promising solar cells for AI data centers. Read on to learn how to turn a crisis into a springboard, keep your humanity in an increasingly machine-centered world, and fall in love with the metro, where every station is a masterpiece.

  28.07.2026

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: Daniel Sapori on His Decision to Pursue Science in Russia

  Daniel Sapori came from France to St. Petersburg to do applied research on perovskite solar cells. Now, he works at ITMO’s Laboratory of Hybrid Nanophotonics and Optoelectronics under the supervision of Sergey Makarov.

  07.05.2021

• World’s Leading Experts Discuss Latest Advances in Nanophotonics at SLALOM

  On June 29-30, the third SchooL on Advanced Light-Emitting and Optical Materials (SLALOM) was held at ITMO University. The event is organized by the Laboratory of Hybrid Nanophotonics and Optoelectronics on the basis of ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering together with Lomonosov Moscow State University and with support from the Russian Science Foundation. For the first time in its history, this year the school took place online.

  09.07.2020