⭐️ Skoltech recently hosted the annual Career Day, designed to help students take their first steps toward their professional journey.

This year, the Skoltech Career Center, together with its partners, organized an intensive program for students: 

- A career opportunities exhibition;
- Individual career consultations with HR specialists and hiring managers, offering guidance on CVs, insights about companies, industry-specific labor market trends, and assistance in creating personalized career paths
- "Speed dating" with graduates;
- Quizzes from partners and branded prizes.

The event attracted participants from over 20 companies, including the Russian Research Institute, Kamaz, Sber, BIOCAD, Yandex, Safe Transport, Cyber Motorika, T-Bank, Wildberries, OilGene, RKC, Virsign Innovations, Sibur Polilab, Piklema, Start in Moscow, NGO Varya, KEPT, M&S Decisions, NSPC (National Payment Card System), Rosselkhozbank, and MTS Digital.

📸 Here's the photo album from the recent Skoltech's Open Doors!

During this event, we presented our educational programs, detailed the application and admission process, and showcased our campus and laboratories.

Don’t miss our next Open Doors event on April 24, where we will discuss the fascinating field of intelligent robotics!

👉 Register now to secure your spot!

🔥 Only 7 days left until the deadline for the first application wave for Skoltech’s PhD programs!

Apply before April 28.

Submit your application and find more details about Skoltech’s programs here.

‼️Heads up

Due to high demand, registration for the Skoltech Summer School on Machine Learning has been extended.

Submit your application by 11:59 p.m. April 23.

The SMILES-2025 will take place from July 14 to July 27 at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). This year’s main theme is generative methods in AI. The program will focus on such topics as large language models, multi-agent systems, AI safety, and generative approaches in computer vision.

The summer school is co-organized by Skoltech, the HIT Faculty of Computer Science, with Alfa Bank as the main partner and AIRI Institute as the scientific partner.

👉 More details here.

💥Drumroll, please: Skoltech and Yandex are launching a new master’s program, "AI Robotics"!

The program trains robotics engineers who develop intelligent systems at the intersection of software and hardware. It is designed for graduates of technical fields and developers who want to dive deeper into robotics, AI, and industrial automation.

Graduates will also be able to become in-demand intelligent robotics and process automation engineers, R&D project managers who know how to manage the development of new products: from research to industrial implementation, coordinating teams of engineers and analysts. The training is conducted entirely in English.

👉 Check out this new master’s program at our Open Doors Day this Thursday — register today, spots are filling up fast!

See you at Skoltech!

🤝 Skoltech has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Abu Dhabi Department of Health.

The agreement was formalized in the presence of Mansoor Al Mansoori, the chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Health, and Mikhail Murashko, the Russian Minister of Health, during the Global Health Week in Abu Dhabi.

The memorandum aims to foster collaborative projects in medical research, the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare, and the alignment of innovation strategies. The partnership encompasses knowledge exchange, the implementation of scientific initiatives, and participation in international healthcare events.

This agreement builds on the outcomes of the Department’s delegation visit to Russia earlier this year, which further strengthened bilateral partnerships.

“Skoltech is pleased to partner with the Abu Dhabi Department of Health. This MOU reflects our shared commitment to driving impactful advancements in research and technology through collaborative efforts. As part of this MOU, we are opting to foster research, effective technology transfer, and knowledge exchange in strategic health and life sciences through developing joint research, especially in applications of AI to biomedical sciences,” commented Skoltech President Alexander Kuleshov.

“Further driving Abu Dhabi’s vision of establishing one of the world’s most intelligent healthcare systems driven by AI, data and advanced technology, our recent delegation to Russia laid the groundwork for these strategic alliances. These partnerships exemplify our collective ambition to advance health technology, positioning both nations at the forefront of global health transformation. Abu Dhabi is leading the conversion of the regional healthcare ecosystem, through leveraging sciences and technology, we are positioning the Emirate as a global life sciences hub and incubator for responsible healthcare innovation,” highlighted Noura Khamis Al Ghaithi, the undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Department of Health, who visited Skoltech in March this year.

🤖 On April 24, we invite you to Skoltech for an Open Doors Day in Robotics.

This is your opportunity to learn more about the following programs:

Master's degree: Engineering systems, Data Science, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies.
PhD: Engineering Systems, Computational and Data Science and Engineering.

🙋 You will also have the chance to meet our professors, with whom you can discuss current research directions in intelligent robotics, computer modeling, and mobile robotics.

Additionally, our amazing admission team will guide you through the selection process and document preparation, and answer all your questions. Plus, we’ll take you on a tour around the campus and laboratories to immerse you in the Skoltech atmosphere. 

👉 Register here

🔭 Scientists from Skoltech together with colleagues from the University of Graz, Austria and the High Altitude Observatory of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research developed a method based on neural networks that combines disparate observations of the Sun into a single model. The research results were published in the journal Nature Communications.

The new AI-based algorithm compares data from different instruments over decades. It transforms observations from one instrument to another, correcting for errors and recovering details. The neural network improves noisy, low-resolution data into clearer ones, preserving physically important features for analyzing the Sun’s evolution.

Using this method, scientists have combined 24 years of space-based observations, enhanced the resolution of full solar cycle images, reduced atmospheric noise, and even estimated magnetic fields on the far side of the Sun using only ultraviolet observations.

“Our work goes beyond enhancing old images — it’s about creating a universal language to study the Sun’s evolution across time. Thanks to Skoltech’s high-performance computing resources, we’ve trained AI models that uncover hidden connections in decades’ worth of solar data, revealing patterns across multiple solar cycles. Ultimately, we’re building a future where every observation, past or future, can speak the same scientific language”, — said co-author of the paper, Skoltech Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Digital Engineering Tatiana Podladchikova.

⚡️ Time to celebrate!

Alexander Tyurin, Assistant Professor at Skoltech AI Center and Head of a Research Group at AIRI Institute, has been named the laureate of the “AI Scientific Breakthrough of the Year” award at Data Fusion 2025.

The award, which includes a prize of 1 million rubles, was granted for a paper presented at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver. In this work, the authors explore decentralized asynchronous optimization—where system nodes operate independently without strict synchronization. They proposed optimal time complexity estimates that retain high accuracy while accelerating computations. This breakthrough opens up new possibilities for training large-scale neural networks and making more efficient use of distributed resources.

⌛️ Deadlines are a tough topic, but you’ve got to keep them in mind.

Just a reminder: we’re accepting applications for the Skoltech Summer School of Machine Learning in China until the end of this week — April 20th included.

Participation is free, and you can apply for either in-person attendance (we’ll cover all expenses except the visa) or online.

🧬 Skoltech scientists have shown how nanoparticles can change the properties of catalysts

A research team of the Energy Transition Center, Professor Alexander Kvashnin and Senior Research Scientist Ilya Chepkasov, together with colleagues studied how iridium and palladium nanoparticles can change their properties at high temperatures.

“The melting point of nanoparticles is significantly lower than that of bulk palladium or iridium. If the catalytic reaction takes place at high temperatures, the particles can melt — transform into an amorphous structure. Most of the research focuses on the properties of crystal structures. Our idea was to see how the properties of the catalyst would change if the particle went into an amorphous state,” said Senior Research Scientist Ilya Chepkasov.

📸 Here’s the album from Skoltech's Open Doors!

We covered our academic programs, walked through the application and admission process, and took a tour of the campus and labs

‼️ By the way, our next event like this is happening the day after tomorrow, April 16.

We’ll dive into cutting-edge research in materials and energy!

Hurry up and register!

⚡️Thai students, here’s your shot!

The H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Skoltech Scholarship brings you a fully funded Master’s in Data Science, Materials Science, or Energy Systems.

What you’ll get:

✅ Full tuition covered
✅ Monthly stipend
✅ Free students dorms
✅ Covered flight
✅ Insurance
✅ World-class education fully in English

Apply by April 25. Check it out.

📸 Check out this awesome album from Skoltech’s first Master’s program selection!

Over 150 candidates visited our campus last weekend, while 73 others from 25 countries joined online. For the first time ever, applicants could do the process in Russian — chatting with professors, tackling entrepreneurship & innovation challenge, and taking math exams.

Want in? Apply by May 12 for the next round of Skoltech Master’s selections!

🔬Scientists from Skoltech and their colleagues have refined the understanding of how plasma treatment of carbon-based electrodes affects the key characteristic of supercapacitors. The study was published in Electrochimica Acta and supported by the Russian Science Foundation.

Supercapacitors are energy storage devices often used in tandem with lithium-ion batteries in electric cars, trains, and port cranes, enabling nearly instantaneous energy consumption or storage. This makes them effective at starting and braking. They have a wide temperature range, suffer little wear and tear, and can extend battery lifetime.

Supercapacitors enable uninterruptible power supply for hospital, data center, and telecommunications equipment to ensure continuous service and avoid memory loss. The technology is also used to even out peak demand on the power grid. Supercapacitors have potential for Internet of Things sensors and communication devices, as well as wearable medical devices and portable electronics.

“Our team is investigating ways to improve the performance of devices known as supercapacitors by tinkering with the carbon-based material used in their electrodes,” the principal investigator of the study, Assistant Professor Stanislav Evlashin of Skoltech Materials, commented. “Basically, there are two ways to increase the amount of energy a supercapacitor stores. Either you enhance the effective surface area of the electrodes by intricate surface design or you introduce foreign atoms into the carbon material of the electrodes. In this study, we made an advance in understanding the effect of foreign atom inclusion.”

The scientist also described how plasma of six chemical compositions affects the capacitance of carbon nanowalls, a material used to make supercapacitor electrodes:

“We found that what happens first is that the amorphous carbon remaining after the growth of carbon nanowall structures is cleared away. This is followed by the formation of new defects and the incorporation of heteroatoms into the carbon material structure. Amorphous carbon, along with the heteroatoms of nitrogen, contributes to the occurrence of pseudocapacitance.”

📸 The photo shows unmodified carbon nanowalls as seen with a scanning electron microscope.

On April 16, we’ll open the doors of our campus to explore materials and energy fields.

Our Open Doors event will focus on the following programs:

▪️ Materials Science (MSc)
▪️ Photonics and Quantum Materials (MSc)
▪️ Advanced Manufacturing Technologies — Materials Technologies track (MSc)
▪️ Applied Computational Mechanics (MSc)
▪️ Digital Electrical Energy (MSc)
▪️ Materials Science and Engineering (PhD)
▪️ Mathematics and Mechanics (PhD)
▪️ Physics (PhD)

We’ll discuss cutting-edge research areas with professors, covering topics from advanced composite materials and materials modeling to digital technologies in power grids and nanostructures for optoelectronics and sensorics. Our admissions team will guide you through the selection process and document preparation. Plus, we’ll take you on a tour around campus and labs.

👉 Register now — we’re looking forward to welcoming you to Skoltech!

🆕 Skoltech researchers came upon a new explosive chemistry without a trace of nitrogen while examining compounds known as oxocarbons, or carbon oxides. In their study in Materials Today Energy, supported by a Russian Science Foundation grant, the scientists highlight dozens of unheard-of molecules, some of which hold over 75% of the explosive energy of TNT.

High-energy-density materials are compounds that can release a lot of chemical energy per unit mass (often by forming nitrogen gas N₂) and can therefore be used as propellants or explosives. Scientists study these materials in the hope of uncovering compounds that pack more energy than the traditional nitrogen-based explosives, such as TNT, and rocket fuels, such as ammonium perchlorate.

“There was this idea that since the bond energy in the carbon monoxide molecule CO is even somewhat greater, one could find a compound that decomposes into carbon monoxide plus something else, and that process would release even more energy. As it turned out, some carbon oxides that we studied release up to 81% as much energy as TNT when they decompose into products that include carbon dioxide, not carbon monoxide,” said Skoltech MSc student Elizaveta Vaneeva from the Materials Science program, the lead author of the study.

The principal investigator of the study, Distinguished Professor Artem R. Oganov, who heads the Material Discovery Laboratory at Skoltech, commented on the fundamental significance of the work:
“This molecular chemistry is unusual. You see, it is commonly held that molecules are understood better than crystals. But what we see is just the opposite. The variability of chemical compositions of crystals is very limited. Molecules, on the contrary, show great diversity. Still, even among molecules not every composition conceivable on paper will actually form in nature, and we have explained why and predicted a number of those that will likely be found.”

⚡️ We’re excited to announce applications for the Skoltech Summer School of Machine Learning in China!

SMILES-2025 will take place at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) from July 14–27, focusing on generative methods in AI. The program dives into large language models, multi-agent systems, safe AI, and generative techniques in computer vision. Expect lectures from top experts like Evgeny Burnaev, Alexander Korotin, and Andrey Kuznetsov.

Running for 12 days, the school combines lectures, seminars, and hands-on project work. We’ve lightened the lecture schedule this year to give you more time for projects and exploring Chinese culture. We’ll select 100 in-person participants and up to 300 online attendees—students, PhD candidates, and early-career AI researchers from Russia and China. The working language is English.

Participation is free: organizers cover flights, meals, and accommodation in China.

Selection for both formats is competitive. Apply by April 20!

Co-organized by HIT’s Faculty of Computer Science, with Alfa-Bank as the general partner and AIRI as the scientific partner.

👉 Read more.

⚡️ On April 9, we will hold a big Open Doors event.

In just one day, we will present 10 Skoltech master’s and PhD programs::

▪️Data Science (MSc)
▪️Advanced Computational Science (MSc)
▪️Applied Computational Mechanics(MSc)
▪️Advanced Manufacturing Technologies — Simulation based Engineering Sciences track (MSc)
▪️Next Generation Communication Technologies (MSc)
▪️Applied Photonics and Optical Information Systems (MSc)
▪️Computational and Data Science and Engineering (PhD)
▪️Mathematics and Mechanics (PhD)
▪️Materials Science and Engineering (PhD)

👉 For the full program and registration details, please click here.

🥳 How we celebrated Skoltech students' international friendship during International Night.

This year, students from 16 countries took part in the event. Traditionally, the teams demonstrated their national costumes, shared interesting facts about their countries, and cooked their traditional dishes. The menu was comprised of Italian pasta, Russian borscht and blini, Chinese dumplings, and many other delicious dishes.

Best presentations of the event:
🔸 France
🔸 Moldova
🔸 Russia

Best dishes of the night:
🔸 China
🔸 Serbia
🔸 Russia (Republic of Tatarstan)

We warmly thank all the participants for an amazing celebration of international friendship! 😌

🆕 A research team from the Skoltech AI Center and Samara University have developed a system for automatically separating the stages of production processes from video streams. The research results are presented in the IEEE Access Q1 journal, one of the leading international platforms in the field of engineering and computer science.

“The introduction of such systems provides real savings: Now there’s no need to manually process hundreds of hours of videos to train a neural network to recognize production stages,” explains Maxim Aleshin, a leading machine learning engineer at the Skoltech AI Center. “The model will independently identify patterns in large volumes of raw material. This allows industrial cameras to detect deviations from the normal course of the process in real time and help prevent emergencies.”

According to Svetlana Illarionova, who heads a research group at the Skoltech AI Center, the technology will be part of broader solutions to ensure industrial safety and optimize production processes.

🙋‍♂️ Hey there!

We want to share a photo album from our recent Open Doors event and invite everyone interested in pursuing a career in the oil and gas sector to our campus.

👉 Join us on March 27 at Skoltech for our Open Doors Day in Petroleum Engineering!

📺 Hassan Baneh has over 15 years of experience in agricultural technology research, with the past five years focused on advancing this field at Skoltech. As a leader in industrial-oriented research projects, he supervises MSc and PhD students specializing in quantitative genetics and agricultural genomics. Currently, he is running several projects in livestock and plant breeding, implementation of cutting-edge genetic and genomic solutions to improve productivity and profitability.

Watch the TV BRICS story about the work and life of the assistant professor at the Skoltech Agro Center.

🆕 In a joint project between the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry (Russian Academy of Sciences) and Skoltech, a research group led by RAS Academician Valentin Ananikov has developed a unique machine learning-based search engine for analyzing vast amounts of high-resolution mass spectrometry data. Machine learning allows exploring terabytes of accumulated data without new experiments. The algorithm accelerates the search for new compounds, reduces costs, and makes research more environmentally friendly. The article was published in the Nature Communications journal.

“Our work is based on an innovative algorithm combining machine learning and analysis of signal distribution in mass spectra, which has significantly reduced false positives when identifying chemical compounds. The new search algorithm has successfully verified historical data on the Mizoroki-Heck reaction and revealed not only already known, but also completely new chemical transformations, including a unique process of cross-combination that has not been previously documented in the scientific literature,” commented Valentin Ananikov, the scientific supervisor of the study.

💬 We often receive questions about the selection waves for the Skoltech master's programs, and today we aim to clarify everithing for you.

Each candidate may apply during any of the waves.

If you do not succeed in the selection finals but pass the online test, you still have a chance to apply during the next wave for a different program.

We encourage you not to give up on your aspirations even in the face of setbacks. Take the time to review all the master's programs in advance and prioritize your preferences.

The upcoming deadline is May 12, with the final deadline on July 7.

Don't wait until summer — explore Skoltech programs and submit your application now!

🔜 On March 27, we invite you to Skoltech for the Open Doors of the Master's program Petroleum Engineering.

At the meeting, we will tell you about the program, the main research areas that students focus on, and also help you understand the selection process and document preparation.

We will take all participants to the Skoltech labs, show the campus to immerse you in the atmosphere of our institute, and introduce you to professors and students.

Prepare your questions about Skoltech - we will definitely answer everything.

👉 Click here to register.

⚡️ Please welcome the new Skoltech master's program — Applied Photonics and Optical Information Systems

What you need to know about the program:

🔹 combines fundamental knowledge in the field of optics with more practical operational and design aspects of modern optoelectronics systems

🔹 aims to provide graduates with all the tools needed for a successful career in applied photonics

🔹 focuses on general engineering approaches (modeling, design), but much time is also devoted to modern processing methods, including machine learning and the development of optical neural networks 

🔹 leverages the state-of-the-art photonics facilities at Skoltech to support the development of advanced photonic devices for telecommunications, medicine, laser technology, quantum technologies, etc.

🔹 emphasis on modern photonic information systems implemented in an integrated format, including photonic integrated circuits (systems on a chip)

🔹 designed and provided to meet the latest industry trends and the needs of a rapidly growing market,  ensuring the future success of its graduates in both academic and industrial environments

Read more about the program here.

☝️ On March 19, we invite all those who wants to pursue a future in physics and looking for top-quality programs that provide the knowledge and skills for a brilliant career in this field to join us at the Skoltech campus.

We will dive into the Photonics and Quantum Materials, Advanced Computational Science, and Applied Photonics and Optical Information Systems master's programs, and also present the Physics PhD program.

Afterward, we will take you on a tour of the campus and labs, and then, in a relaxed atmosphere over a cup of coffee (or tea), you will have a chance to chat with programs’ representatives, admissions committee members, and current Skoltech students.

👉 Register now.

🆕 Researchers from the Skoltech Laboratory for Metagenome Analysis, which is led by Assistant Professor Artem Isaev, and their colleagues from the United Kingdom have studied the BREX methyltransferase and determined the protein structure, which helped to program its specificity for DNA sites and significantly enhanced antiviral defense. The research, supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, was published in Nature Communications.

“In our laboratory, we have been studying BREX since its discovery. This rather complex six-protein system is interesting because it combines classical DNA methylation with new antiviral mechanisms. In this study, we tried to find out how BREX distinguishes between self and non-self and what role the BrxX methyltransferase plays in this process. Our colleagues from Dmitry Gilyarov’s laboratory solved the structure of BrxX in a complex with a site-specific DNA substrate and found out how specific nucleotides in the BREX site are recognized. Using this knowledge, we were able to mutagenize BrxX and program it to recognize new DNA sites. Unexpectedly, this also significantly increased the antiviral activity of BREX,” says Alena Drobiazko, the study’s lead author and a Life Sciences PhD student at Skoltech.
“In our work, we also showed that BrxX is an essential element for both the methylation of bacterial DNA and the defense step. Interestingly, this protein, which was inactive in both in vitro and in vivo experiments, was functional after the assembly of a large BREX complex. [...] In our further research, we expect to find out how the BREX system decides between attacking or defending DNA and how the protection mechanism works,” says Mikhail Skutel, a co-author of the paper and a Life Sciences PhD student at Skoltech.

👀 We are summing up the results of the recent Matter and Materials conference, which was dedicated to the latest research and advancements in materials science, chemistry, and related fields.

The world's leading scientists gathered at the event at Skoltech: Professor Yuri Oganessian, a legendary scientist who discovered 10 elements from the periodic table. One of them, oganesson, is named after him. Professor Ho-Kwang Mao - a patriarch of high-pressure physics chemistry and Professor Michele Parrinello, a father of modern computational chemistry.

Over the two days, 23 keynote speakers spoke at the conference, including outstanding scientists: RAS and Lomonosov Moscow State University Professor Igor Pekov who contributed to discovering 284 new minerals, with him being the lead author for 156 of them, and Skoltech professor and the head of Energy Center Artem Abakumov, who became a co-laureate of the prestigious Vyzov award for researchers in the “Breakthrough” category" last year.

The poster session showcased 240 research items from PhD and other students from Russia, Belarus, China, Armenia, and other countries. The best poster awards went to Di Zhou, Daniil Poletaev, and Nikolay Chtchelkatchev.  

At the closing ceremony of the conference, Skoltech Rector Alexander Kuleshov and Distinguished Professor Artem R. Oganov, who heads the Material Discovery Laboratory at Skoltech, presented Yuri Oganessian and Ho-Kwan Mao with honorary doctorates from Skoltech — they became the first recipients in the history of the institute.

📣 The first wave of competitive selection for the Skoltech master's programs has wrapped up!

If you didn’t make it or want to try for another program? Your next big shot is May 12, the deadline for the second wave—mark your calendars!

👉 Hit the link to apply or learn more about the Skoltech master's programs!

⏰ It's the last day of the first wave!

Hurry up and submit your application for the competitive selection for Skoltech master’s program before 23:59 Moscow time (GMT+3).

If you have already started filling out the application and prepared the necessary documents, but procrastination has gotten in the way, we remind you that the first wave is the best time to test yourself in the competitive selection, for several reasons:

▪️lower competition;
▪️more time to prepare your thesis;
▪️you can relax in the summer without worrying about admission;
▪️there’s still an opportunity to apply for the next wave if you fail to pass the selection for your chosen program.

⏰ It's the last day of the first wave!

Hurry up and submit your application for the competitive selection for Skoltech master’s program before 23:59 Moscow time (GMT+3).

If you have already started filling out the application and prepared the necessary documents, but procrastination has gotten in the way, we remind you that the first wave is the best time to test yourself in the competitive selection, for several reasons:

▪️lower competition;
▪️more time to prepare your thesis;
▪️you can relax in the summer without worrying about admission;
▪️there’s still an opportunity to apply for the next wave if you fail to pass the selection for your chosen program.

❗️ Only one day left till the first deadline to apply for Skoltech master's programs.

Upload your docs and press the submit button.

👏 Are you ready to congratulate?

15 Skoltech students have become winners of the Potanin Foundation scholarship competition.

The organizers note that the winners of the named award are not just academically successful students, but talented and goal-oriented people ready for professional development and mastering new technologies.

We are proud of our master's students:

🔸 Kseniia Amelina(Life Sciences)
🔸 Polina Astanina (Materials Science)
🔸 Aleksandra Gorbunova (Life Sciences)
🔸 Kseniia Danichkina (Life Sciences)
🔸 Radion Zaripov (Materials Science)
🔸 Nikita Ilment (Life Sciences)
🔸 Egor Kovalev (Photonics and Quantum Materials)
🔸 Dmitrii Kornienko (Petroleum Engineering)
🔸 Maxim Kuporov (Engineering Systems)
🔸 Alexandra Malygina (Life Sciences)
🔸 Victoriia Palagina (Life Sciences)
🔸 Andrey Popov (Life Sciences)
🔸 Maria Reshetova (Photonics and Quantum Materials)
🔸 Karina Yzhikova (Materials Science)
🔸 Zakhar Yagudin (Engineering Systems)