The ambassador discussed the prospects of academic cooperation with the Institute, toured the Skoltech campus, and got acquainted with the research areas of Skoltech. Vladimir Kalyaev, the head of projects for development group at Skoltech’s Fablab, demonstrated the latest laboratory equipment and spoke about the Institute’s research infrastructure for prototyping technological developments. Head of Research Equipment Service Group Ivan Skvortsov from the Research Facilities Center presented the Advanced Imaging Core Facility and showed its infrastructure, including a unique transmission electron microscope that allows studying the elemental composition at the atomic level.

Ekaterini Xagorari also got acquainted with the Laboratory of Hybrid Photonics at the Skoltech Photonics Center, headed by Professor Pavlos Lagoudakis. In 2019, laboratory scientists developed the world’s first fully optical polariton transistor capable of operating at room temperature and having an unprecedentedly high gain ratio. The center is also working on a technology for using single-layer carbon nanotubes. For their research, the researchers were awarded several prestigious awards — the Vyzov Prize, the V. S. Letokhov Prize for Young Scientists, and the Y. I. Ostrovsky Prize.