Science and Research Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal
University
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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. MISSION OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY IS
DETERMINED BY THE EXCLAVE NATURE OF THE KALININGRAD REGION
Strategic Development Objective 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.
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Intensive modernization of research and laboratory facilities
as well as human capacity building form the basis of the federal
university development strategy IKBFU RESEARCH ACTIVITES IN FIGURES
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.
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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. PUBLICATION
ACTIVITY OF IKBFU Research results are published in national and
international periodicals 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. In the period 2008-2012, University researchers
published 181 monographs, more than 340 study guides, more than
6000 research articles.
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IKBFU VICE-RECTOR FOR RESEARCH 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. In 2011 Prof. Dr. Yurov was awarded the title Honorary
Worker of Higher Professional Education in the Russian Federation
Artem Yurov, Prof. Dr.
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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 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. The University trains highly
qualified research staff members candidates of science and doctors
of science Dynamics of increase in research MN RUR (prognosis)
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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). DISSERTATION
COUNCILS
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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.
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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.
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RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTRE FUNCTIONAL NANOMATERIALS Director
of the R&E Centre - Dr. Aleksandr Goikhman 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. 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. 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.
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. Main
Competences:
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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
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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.
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.
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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
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.
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LABORATORY OF PSYCHOIMMUNOLOGY Head of the Laboratory Oleg
Bukhtoyarov, MD. 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. 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. The Laboratory was established to study the
chronic stress influence on higher nervous activity and immune
system functions of a human.
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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. 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.