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  • Staff Spotlight: Walid Al-Haidri, Yemen

    In our interviews, we often spotlight current students or recent alumni. But today, we bring you the story of a man who once walked the same path as many international students in Russia and has now built a successful career through perseverance and hard work. His inspiring story is a testament to overcoming challenges and achieving success in a foreign land. Read on to get motivated!

    10.10.2024

  • Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Discoveries in Machine Learning and Neural Networks

    This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” In this article, Anton Kuznetsov, the head of ITMO’s Institute of Applied Computer Science, explains the significance of their work – and how it led to ChatGPT.

    08.10.2024

  • Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded for MicroRNA: ITMO Expert Explains Significance

    In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.” We asked Oleg Kuchur, a PhD in biology and assistant at ITMO’s ChemBio Cluster, all about microRNA and its applications. Read on to find out his answers.

    07.10.2024

  • ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #65

    October is here, which means it’s harvest time! In our case, that means a fruitful batch of news stories, ranging from research breakthroughs and public science projects to great academic opportunities. Grab your basket and have a look!

    07.10.2024

  • ITMO and Russian Science Foundation Celebrate 10-Year Anniversary of Collaboration

    ITMO University hosted a series of lectures dedicated to the anniversary of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF). The national campaign 10 Years with RSF encompasses 120 research and educational organizations in 45 Russian cities, including ITMO University, where the university’s experts spoke about their projects in chemistry, physics, computer science, and food technology supported by the foundation.

    30.09.2024

  • ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #64

    Sturdy robots, advances in cancer diagnostics, and exciting initiatives for students and researchers to ring in the new academic year – all in our biweekly digest of science news from ITMO University.

    23.09.2024

  • ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #63

    The new academic year is finally here – and with it, a whole slew of new research findings, inventions, and theories. Join us as we inspect this fall’s first harvest of science news, from nanoscience to chaos theory, as well as new learning initiatives and megascience projects.

    09.09.2024

  • ITMO Physicists Develop Multifunctional Material for Thermal Melanoma Therapy

    Researchers at ITMO have suggested a quick and simple method to synthesize gold plasmonic nanodiamonds – these hybrid materials can find their application in photothermal therapy of melanoma. The new material can perform two functions: heat up a tumor and measure its temperature. In vitro experiments demonstrated that once plasmonic nanodiamonds were introduced into a tumor and heated, the tumor’s growth slowed down by 65.22%. The results of the study were described in Nanophotonics.

    05.09.2024

  • A Novel Atom-Twisting Method Proposed by ITMO Researchers

    Scientists from ITMO University discovered that an atom adopts a twisted structure when absorbing twisted light. As the proposed model facilitates and accelerates the twisting process, it provides an insight into the physics of interactions between structured light and complex quantum systems, as well as will be helpful in microscopy, quantum tomography and computing, and telecommunications. The results of the study are published in Physical Review. The research is supported by the Russian Science Foundation.

    29.08.2024

  • ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #62

    Artificial brains, artificial water, and genuine success – there’s never a dull day at ITMO as long as ITMO.NEWS is there to report on the latest in science and education. Here are some highlights from the past two weeks’ headlines.

    26.08.2024