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Gazprom Neft and ITMO University to Train Bioeconomics Master’s Students
…used on collaboration with Russia’s leading universities. The best students will be awarded corporate scholarships. The teaching staff will include experts from Gazprom Neft’s Science and Technology Center. “We have been working quite closely with Gazprom Neft for five years now, which is why we have decided to strengthen our strategic plans within the fram…
03.08.2020
ITMO Student Alexander Berestennikov Becomes Recipient of Zhores Alferov Scholarship
… one of the recipients of the Zhores Alferov Scholarship, named after the late Nobel Prize laureate. The competition received over 350 applications from PhD students and young scientists. What did you write in yours? When you apply for this scholarship, you list all of your achievements, publications, and the conferences you’ve participated in, as well as the jour…
31.07.2020
ITMO Graduate Anastasia Tukmakova on Her Path in Science, Thermoelectricity, and New Materials
…. Later, she became interested in thermoelectricity and kept working in this field during her Master’s and PhD studies. ITMO.NEWS asked Anastasia why she decided to work in science rather than in the industry, what the working process of scientists looks like, and what you can learn during internships abroad. When you applied to I…
30.07.2020
Researchers Develop Supersensitive Method to Measure Surface Topography With THz Radiation
… also serve industrial purposes. Every method has its limitations and every technology can be improved or replaced with an alternative. Thus, a group of Russian and French scientists proposed a method to acquire 3D images of object surfaces, which would be analogous in their properties to holograms, with terahertz (THz) radiation. The project is brought to life b…
30.07.2020
How and Why Do Scientists Create Nanorobots?
Neurotechnologies and Software Engineering Master’s Program to Go Corporate and Open Two New Specializations
…ing fields that are essential to the global economy in Russia. The company group Brain Development LLC and Robotrack LLC work with support of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, Educational T…
29.07.2020
ITMO Graduate Nikita Teplyakov on Working in Switzerland, Studying in the UK, and Breaking Stereotypes
…arship. Recently, he was accepted into a PhD program at Imperial College London (rated 8th by QS). Nikita Teplyakov spoke to ITMO.NEWS about his experiences, how he discovered science, and why stereotypes about scientists aren’t always right. How did you come to choose photonics as your field of study? When I was making that c…
28.07.2020
Environmental-Monitoring Water Drones to Be Tested on St. Petersburg Rivers
…Technologies, and associate professor at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics. The tests were to be conducted in the summer, but the COVID-19 pandemic changed the scientists’ plans. Nevertheless, the engineers envision that they’ll be able to properly test their system on St. Petersburg’s waters as soon as this September. From Volga to Neva The…
28.07.2020
St. Petersburg's Nobel Prize Legacy
…d the 21st most cited psychologist of the 20th century because of the contribution his discovery made to the understanding of human and animal behavior as well as neurological sciences. And yes, behaviorism as a theory is quite debatable but we can’t deny that this approach is at the base of several types of therapy and treatments for various mental disorders. This i…
27.07.2020
Path to Immortality: Old and New Ways to Fight Aging
…sed creams and water. The beverage Radithor became history’s first energy drink – right up until its consumers started to die off. Naturally, none of these methods have proven scientifically sound. Today, there are three basic approaches: deceleration of cell destruction (well-developed, but limited to 150 years of life), regular dumping of destroyed cells (potent…
27.07.2020