Immanuel Kant Baltic
Federal University
Science and Research
MISSION OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY IS DETERMINED BY THE
EXCLAVE NATURE OF THE KALININGRAD REGION
Strategic Development Objective
Mission of IKBFU is to provide
long-term competitiveness of the
exclave
Kaliningrad
region
surrounded by the EU states by
means of establishing a reputable,
high-level research and education
centre in the Baltic Sea region.
is to develop the University that
would
be
renown
and
recognizable among other leading
Russian universities, ensuring
high technological standards in
the region and training highly
qualified specialists with excellent
career perspectives in any place of
the world.
IKBFU RESEARCH ACTIVITES IN FIGURES
140
120
R&D total
Общий
value объем
(MN
НИР,
млн
руб.
RUR)
100
80
60
40
20
0
Финансирова
Value of R&D
ние
НИР по
projects
зарубежным
financed
программам и
within
грантам,
млн
international
руб.
programmes,
MN RUR
IKBFU occupies the 17th place (11.95
points) according to the research and
publication activity ranking conducted
among 474 universities in Russia.
*highest score was reached by the
Lomonosov Moscow State University —
34.08 points.
**according to the monitoring data as of
2010 conducted by the Higher School of
Economics.
140 professors and 500 associate professors,
young scientists, post-diploma students and
undergraduates are involved in the University
research.
Intensive modernization of research and laboratory facilities as well as human capacity
building form the basis of the federal university development strategy
PUBLICATION ACTIVITY OF IKBFU
Research results are published in national and international periodicals
In the period 2008-2012, University researchers published 181
monographs, more than 340 study guides, more than 6000 research
articles.
The University Publishing House releases research journals included in the list of
periodicals recommended by the State Commission for Academic Degrees and
Titles: “Vestnik of IKBFU”, “Kantovky Sbornik”, “The Baltic Region”, as well
as journals “Baltijsky filologichesky kurier”, “Slovo.ru: Baltijsky aktsent”.
Each IKBFU student has access to data bases
of various electronic resources including:
IOP Historic Archive, Cambridge Journals
Digital Archive Complete Collection, Oxford
Online Reference, LexisNexis, Web of
Knowledge, Science Direct Freedom
Collection, Publishing, QUESTEL, Oxford
Journals, JSTOR, etc.
IKBFU VICE-RECTOR FOR RESEARCH
Artem Yurov,
Prof. Dr.
In 2011 Prof. Dr. Yurov was awarded the title
“Honorary Worker of Higher Professional
Education in the Russian Federation”
His sphere of research interests includes theoretical physics, cosmology, theory of
intergrable systems, field theory, high energy physics, and mathematical models in
demography.
He is an author of more than 100 research publications, including those in RAS
journals. Prof. Yurov has 49 publications in leading international high impact
journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus. A number of papers has been
published in co-authorship with the top scientists from Spain, USA, Germany, Brazil,
UK, India and Poland.
Prof. Yurov has built a team of specialists in relativistic cosmology that conduct
research at IKBFU.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
The University trains highly qualified research staff members –
candidates of science and doctors of science
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•
•
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36 fields in post-diploma studies;
7 – internship and residency studies;
5 – higher doctorate;
140 doctors of science and 500 candidates of
science;
• 610 post-diploma students;
• 10 Dissertation Councils.
Dynamics of increase
in research
MN RUR
(prognosis)
DISSERTATION COUNCILS
Candidate of Science and Doctor of Science Dissertation Councils operating at
IKBFU:
Code and Title of Research Specialty, Field of Science:
25.00.24 – Economic, Social, Political and Recreational Geography (Geographical
Sciences);
25.00.28 – Oceanology (Geographical Sciences);
25.00.36 – Geoecology (Geographical Sciences).
13.00.01 – General Pedagogics, History of Pedagogics and Education
(Pedagogical Sciences);
13.00.08 – Theory and Methodology of Professional Education (Pedagogical
Sciences).
03.02.08 – Ecology (Biological Sciences).
10.01.03 – Literature of Foreign Countries (Western European and American)
(Philological Sciences);
10.02.01 – Russian Language (Philological Sciences).
RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK “FABRIKA”
In 2014, the R&T Park “Fabrika” was opened. It includes research and development
laboratories of various profile:
•Laboratory of Coherent and Optical Measuring Systems;
•Laboratory of Optical Radiation;
•Laboratory of Micro and Nano-Structures Research;
•Laboratory of Thin-Film Materials Deposition;
•Laboratory of 3d Prototyping and Intelligent Robotics;
•Laboratory of New Magnetic Materials;
•Centre for Energy Efficiency;
•Publishing House of IKBFU.
Opening of the R&T Park “Fabrika” was named “Opening of the Year” by experts of
the regional award “PROFI – Results of 2014”.
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTRE “INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES”
Established in June 2011.
Director of the R&E Centre - Mikhail Plisov.
Structure of the R&E Centre:
Department of High-Performance Computing
The Department was established for facilitation and
exploitation of the high-performance computing
cluster. The cluster was purchased within the National
Priority Project “Education”.
CISCO Academy
Training of specialists with CCNA level in the
framework of certified courses.
International Testing Centre Prometric
The Centre is aimed at professional certification in the
IT sphere (nearest centres of such kind are situated in
Moscow and St-Petersburg) The Centre offers
certification opportunities not only for undergraduate
and post-diploma students of IKBFU, but also for staff
members of many leading regional organizations.
International Testing
Centre
Pearson VUE
Pearson VUE offers a full
range of services in the data
management
tests
elaboration and organizes
examinations through the
vast and most reliable
testing centres network in
the world covering 165
countries.
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTRE “FUNCTIONAL
NANOMATERIALS”
Director of the R&E Centre - Dr. Aleksandr Goikhman
Main Competences:
•X-Ray Optics:
Creation of appliances focalizing X-Ray Radiation;
Creation of coverings for these appliances;
Testing of elements and appliances in synchrotron sources;
Creation of a Laboratory Synchrotron.
•Nanobiotechnologies:
Elaboration and production of functional bioactive coverings applicable in medical
diagnostics.
•Nanoelectronics:
Research and synthesis of functional polycrystal oxides as well as testing of their usage as
tunnel isolators in crystal thin-film structures of magnetic tunnel transition.
•Nanotechnologies in Energy Saving:
Elaboration of methods aimed at creation of
nanostructures for energy saving systems controlling
condition and management of technological processes
as well as management of equipment and independent
power supply systems.
STRUCTURE OF THE R&E CENTRE “FUNCTIONAL NANOMATERIALS”
Laboratory of Pulsed
Laser Deposition and
Atomic Layer Deposition
Laboratory of Ion Beam
Assisted Deposition
Laboratory of Micro- and
Nanostructures
R&D INSTITUTE OF APPLIED INFORMATICS AND MATHEMATICAL
GEOPHYSICS.
Director: Gennady Erokhin,
Prof. Dr.
AIM:
To conduct fundamental and applied research in the field of applied informatics
and mathematical geophysics as well as introduce research results to the
economic and social sphere of the Kaliningrad region and the Russian
Federation as a whole.
Research and innovative activity of the Institute is carried out within the
following priority directions and spheres:
•mathematical geophysics;
•grid computing and super-computer technologies;
•applied information and space-based technologies of environment
conservation;
•applied information systems for education, public health and management.
LABORATORY “CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY”
Head of the Laboratory - Dr. Svetlana Babak,
Leading clinical pharmacologist of the Kaliningrad region.
Laboratory capacities:
• therapeutic drug monitoring;
• determination of the nature of drug-protein interrelation;
• determination of a structural formula of the unknown target;
• determination of the bioavailability of a medical agent in a specified organism;
• determination of factors leading to undesirable side effects in the course of drug
treatment;
• analysis of oligonucleotide substitution;
• analysis of the multidrug carriers activity;
• prognosis of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of drugs on the basis of
pharmacogenetical testing.
LABORATORY OF PSYCHOIMMUNOLOGY
Head of the Laboratory – Oleg Bukhtoyarov,
MD.
The Laboratory was established to study the chronic stress influence on higher
nervous activity and immune system functions of a human.
Main research directions:
• elaboration of the psychogenic blastomatosis concept; the essence of which is in the
induction of malignant neoplastic process under the influence of chronic
psychoemotional stress factors;
•elaboration of the life goal dominant idea disclosing the nature of chronic
psychoemotional stress development in a human
•elaboration of a strategy of anti-relapsing psychoimmunological rehabilitation of
oncology patients;
•Elaboration and clinical approbation of a skin test (antitumoral test) for specific
antitumoral activity assessment of the immune system.
LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR AND GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES
Head of the Laboratory – Dr. Ilya Mazunin
Main research directions:
•elaboration of molecular-genetic diagnostic methods for diseases related to mtDNA
mutations;
•elaboration of an algorithm of differential diagnostics of diseases related to mtDNA
mutations;
•development of methods of mtDNA pathogenic mutations suppression as well as
methods of mitochondrial genome modification.
Molecular-genetic methods of the Laboratory:
•synthesis of oligonucleotide primers and hydrolysable probes;
•creation of plasmid vector molecules and cells transformation;
•determination of the heteroplasmy level of pathogenic mtDNA mutations by using
drip in silico PCR and pyrosequencing;
•capillaceous sequencing;
•targeted modification of eukaryotic cells genome by using site-specific nucleases.
Thank you!