Skoltech is an international graduate research-focused university that was founded by the group of world-renowned scientists in 2011. Skoltech's curriculum focuses on technology and innovation, offering Master's programs in 11 technological disciplines. Students receive rigorous theoretical and practical training, design their own research projects, participate in internships and gain entrepreneurial skills in English. The faculty is comprised of current researchers with international accreditation and achievements.

2020

  • December 23: Ivan Tereshchenko
    Thesis title: Cathode materials for metal-ion batteries based on orthoborate and orthophosphate 
    Supervisor: Professor Artem Abakumov, Skoltech
    PhD program: Materials Science and Engineering
  • December 18: Ivan Kalinov
    Thesis title: Development of a heterogeneous robotic system for automated inventory stocktaking of industrial warehouse 
    Supervisor: Associate Professor Dzmitry Tsetserukou, Skoltech
    PhD program: Engineering Systems
  • December 17: Sergey Sosnin
    Thesis title: Exploration of chemical space by machine learning 
    Supervisor: Professor Maxim Fedorov, Skoltech
    PhD program: Computational and Data Science and Engineering
  • December 15: Anna Fefilova
    Thesis title: Functional study of human and murine Morrbid lncRNA in vitro  
    Supervisor: Associate Professor Timofei Zatsepin, Skoltech
    PhD program: Life Sciences
  • December 15: Grigoriy Yashin
    Thesis title: Development of group of flying robots with multifunctional robotic limbs aimed at operations in cluttered environments 
    Supervisor: Associate Professor Dzmitry Tsetserukou, Skoltech
    PhD program: Engineering Systems
  • December 11: Lyudmila Khakimova
    Thesis title: New approaches for numerical modeling of air-injection based enhanced oil recovery 
    Supervisor: Associate Professor Alexey Cheremisin, Skoltech
    PhD program: Petroleum Engineering
  • December 11: Aleksandra Mitina
    Thesis title: Role of breast milk lipid composition in postnatal brain development 
    Supervisor: Professor Philipp Khaitovich, Skoltech
    PhD program: Life Sciences
  • December 10: Anastasia Ivanova
    Thesis title: Dynamic modelling and experimental evaluation of nanoparticles application in surfactant enhanced oil recovery 
    Supervisors: Associate Professor Alexey Cheremisin, Skoltech
                           Professor Ahmed Barifcani, Curtin University
    PhD program: Petroleum Engineering
  • December 9: Aysylu Askarova
    Thesis title: Physical and numerical modeling of thermal methods of EOR and improvements of oil recovery 
    Supervisor: Associate Professor Alexey Cheremisin, Skoltech
    PhD program: Petroleum Engineering
  • December 1: Valentina Burskaia
    Thesis title: Positive selection in parallel evolution 
    Supervisor: Professor Georgii Bazykin, Skoltech
    PhD program: Life Sciences
  • November 19: Andrey Churkin
    Thesis title: Stability analysis in coalitional games for cross-border power interconnection planning 
    Supervisors: Professor Janusz Bialek, Skoltech
                           Assistant Professor David Pozo, Skoltech
    PhD program: Engineering Systems
  • November 9: Anna Shiriaeva
    Thesis title: Interference and primed adaptation intermediates in type I CRISPR-Cas systems 
    Supervisor: Professor Konstantin Severinov, Skoltech
    PhD program: Life Sciences
  • October 23: Andrei Tarkhov
    Thesis title: Ergodization dynamics of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation on a lattice 
    Supervisor: Associate Professor Boris Fine, Skoltech
    PhD program: Physics
  • October 23: Stepan Romanov
    Thesis title: Single-walled carbon nanotubes as a source of ultrasound 
    Supervisor: Professor Albert Nasibulin, Skoltech
    PhD program: Physics
  • October 20: Evgenii Tsymbalov
    Thesis title: Machine learning for elastic strain engineering 
    Supervisor: Associate Professor Alexander Shapeev, Skoltech
    PhD program: Computational and Data Science and Engineering
  • October 20: Mikhail Pugach
    Thesis title: Vanadium redox flow batteries modeling and performance analysis 
    Supervisor: Assistant Professor Aldo Bischi, Skoltech
    PhD program: Engineering Systems
  • October 19: Dmitry Shadrin
    Thesis title: Data-driven modeling of plant growth dynamics in controlled environments 
    Supervisor: Professor Maxim Fedorov, Skoltech
    PhD program: Computational and Data Science and Engineering
  • October 9: Alexander Menshchikov
    Thesis title: Mathematical modelling and analysis of intelligent monitoring platform for precision agriculture 
    Supervisor: Assistant Professor Andrey Somov, Skoltech
    PhD program: Computational and Data Science and Engineering
  • October 5: Julia Bondareva
    Thesis title: Sulfonimide-based dendrimers: synthesis and application for surface functionalization 
    Supervisors: Associate Professor Igor Shishkovsky, Skoltech
                           Dr. Stanislav Evlashin, Skoltech
    PhD program: Materials Science and Engineering
  • October 2: Aleksandr Kurilovich
    Thesis title: Oxygen reduction reaction mechanism on metal oxides/carbon composite materials 
    Supervisor: Professor Keith Stevenson, Skoltech
    PhD program: Materials Science and Engineering
  • October 2: Oleg Lebedev
    Thesis title: Study of deformational behavior of electrical conductivity of polymer composites with different nanofiller distribution types 
    Supervisor: Assistant Professor Sergey Abaimov, Skoltech
    PhD program: Materials Science and Engineering
  • September 22: Iana Fedorova
    Thesis title: Characterization and application of CRISPR-Cas enzymes 
    Supervisor: Professor Konstantin Severinov, Skoltech
    PhD program: Life Sciences
  • September 14: Kirill Polovnikov
    Thesis title: On connection between sparse graphs and hyperbolic geometry 
    Supervisors: Professor Mikhail Gelfand, Skoltech
                           Dr. Sergei Nechaev, Interdisciplinary Scientific Center Poncelet
    PhD program: Physics
  • September 7: Ilias Giannakopoulos
    Thesis title: Memory compression of the Galerkin volume integral equation and coil modeling for the electrical property mapping of biological tissue 
    Supervisor: Professor Maxim Fedorov, Skoltech
    PhD program: Computational and Data Science and Engineering
  • September 3: Dominique Leboeuf
    Thesis title: UBR-ubiquitin ligases of the ARG/N-degron pathway as new targets for therapy: implications in cancer and inflammation 
    Supervisors: Adjunct Professor Konstantin Piatkov, Skoltech
                           Associate Professor Timofei Zatsepin, Skoltech
    PhD program: Life Sciences
  • August 31: Yaroslav Menshenin
    Thesis title: Model-based framework for system concept 
    Supervisor: Professor Edward Crawley, Skoltech, MIT
    PhD program: Engineering Systems
  • August 26: Elena Egorova
    Thesis title: Signature codes for multiple access channels, digital fingerprinting codes and symmetric group testing 
    Supervisor: Dr. Grigory Kabatyansky, Skoltech
    PhD program: Computational and Data Science and Engineering
  • June 30: Aleksandra Boldyreva
    Thesis title: Unraveling bulk and interfacial degradation mechanisms in perovskite solar cells 
    Supervisor: Professor Pavel Troshin, Skoltech
    PhD program: Materials Science and Engineering
  • June 18: Zahed Shamsollah Allahyari
    Thesis title: Coevolutionary prediction of materials with optimal target properties in the entire chemical space
    Supervisor: Professor Artem Oganov, Skoltech
    PhD program: Materials Science and Engineering
  • June 5: Oleg Khamisov
    Thesis title: Optimization of Frequency Control in Power Systems
    Supervisors: Assistant Professor Anatoly Dymarsky, Skoltech
                           Professor Janusz Bialek, Skoltech
    PhD program: Engineering systems
  • May 27: Pramod Mulbagal Rajanna
    Thesis title: Hybrid heterojunction solar cells using single-walled carbon nanotubes and amorphous silicon thin films 
    Supervisors: Professor Albert Nasibulin, Skoltech
                           Professor Peter Lund, Aalto University, Finland
    PhD program: Physics 
  • March 10: Timur Saifutdinov
    Thesis title: Optimal siting, sizing and technology selection of energy storage systems for power systems applications
    Supervisor: Professor Janusz Bialek, Skoltech

    PhD program: Engineering systems

  • February 17: Mikhail Dobynde
    Thesis title: Radiation Shielding of Astronauts during Interplanetary Flights
    Supervisor: Professor Rupert Gerzer, Skoltech

    PhD program: Engineering systems

  • January 31: Christian Tantardini
    Thesis title: A study of chemical bonding through quantum chemical topology
    Supervisor: Professor Artem Oganov, Skoltech

    PhD program: Materials Science and Engineering

  • January 31: Dominik Johannes Knoll
    Thesis title: Model-based processes and tools for concurrent conceptual design of space systems
    Supervisor: Associate Professor Alessandro Golkar, Skoltech

    PhD program: Engineering systems

  • January 20: Andrii Liashyk
    Thesis title: Bethe vectors and their scalar products in quantum integrable models
    Supervisor: Professor Anton Zabrodin, Skoltech

    PhD program: Mathematics and Mechanics