A competition ending Sept. 14 determined the names of 17 researchers who will serve as visiting lecturers at MIPT. Among them are renowned professors from the world’s top universities, including École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, ParisTech, the University of Edinburgh, Arizona State University, the University of Zurich, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Visiting professorship grants are awarded to active researchers with extensive work experience in leading international research centers and universities. At MIPT, each visiting lecturer is joined by a faculty member. Together, they co-supervise a research team comprising between two and seven undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. The grant is provided for implementing a specific research project in an MIPT laboratory or department, as well as for supervising student research, reading lectures, and facilitating academic exchanges. The amount of grant funding, which was determined by the selection committee, varies between 4 million rubles and 8 million rubles (about $70,000-$140,000).
By attracting professors of international standing, we foster a connection with leading research teams and engage MIPT students into research work in joint projects focused on areas at the heart of modern science.
It is worth noting that the submitted applications generally reflected a high level of scientific achievement on the part of the candidates. Thus, the visiting professors to whom the grants were awarded have an average h-index of 32 and, on average, publish 10 papers per year. Four of the grant recipients have more than three publications in Nature or Science.
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Visiting professor |
MIPT laboratory or department |
Primary affiliation |
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Jozsef Balogh |
Advanced Combinatorics and Network Applications Lab |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Ernst Bamberg |
Laboratory for Advanced Studies of Membrane Proteins |
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics |
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Alexis Gautreau |
Laboratory for the Development of Innovative Drugs and Agricultural Biotechnology |
French National Center for Scientific Research |
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Alexei Gruverman |
Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Nanoelectronics |
University of Nebraska at Lincoln |
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Antonio del Sol Mesa |
Laboratory of Translational Research and Personalized Medicine |
University of Luxembourg |
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Martin Dressel |
Terahertz Spectroscopy Lab |
University of Stuttgart |
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Michael Dumbser |
Laboratory of Mathematical Modeling of Nonlinear Processes in Gaseous Media |
University of Trento |
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Vsevolod Katritch |
Laboratory of Structural Biology of G-Protein-Coupled Receptors |
University of Southern California |
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Thomas Maeder |
Laboratory of 3-D Printing Technologies for Functional Microstructures |
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
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Angelia Nedic |
Advanced Combinatorics and Network Applications Lab |
Arizona State University |
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Michael Th. Rassias |
Advanced Combinatorics and Network Applications Lab |
University of Zurich |
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Peter Richtárik |
Advanced Combinatorics and Network Applications Lab |
University of Edinburgh |
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Dimitri Roditchev |
Laboratory of Topological Quantum Phenomena in Superconducting Systems |
ParisTech |
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Oleg Smolyanov |
Higher Mathematics Department |
Lomonosov Moscow State University |
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Christoph Fahlke |
Laboratory for Advanced Studies of Membrane Proteins |
Forschungszentrum Jülich |
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Cheol Seong Hwang |
Center of Shared Research Facilities |
University of Seoul |
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Evgeny Tsymbal |
Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Nanoelectronics |
University of Nebraska at Lincoln |