The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, or Skoltech, is a private

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located in

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. Skoltech was established in 2011 as part of a multi-year partnership with the

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(MIT) Globally, the university in 2023 was ranked # 702 in the world by ''US News & World Report''. It was among the number 65 young university in the world according to Nature Index in 2021. That same year Skoltech entered the subject ranking in physics among young universities for the first time (35th place), and named a rapidly rising university (21st place among young universities). In February 2022 MIT ended its partnership with Skoltech in protest of the

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History

Skoltech began as a joint effort with a curriculum designed by

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and financial backing from the Russian government. The school offers graduate degrees only, and teaching is in English. It serves as the centerpiece of a $2.7 billion innovation hub funded by the Russian Finance Ministry. By 2013, the university had hired 30 to 35 professors and established a campus from the

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near

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. In 2018, it inaugurated a new campus designed by

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with an area of . It is the first work in Russia for the Swiss practice and the result of an international competition. In 2019, the university won the first prize for the Prix Versailles in the "University Campus" category. The university is also known for designing and operating a petaflop

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, Zhores, considered one of the largest in Russia. In 2020, twenty-three researchers landed on the global top 2% list by citation impact. As a result, by 2021, the university had entered the QS World University Rankings by subject. MIT terminated the partnership in February 2022 as a response to the

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Degree programs

Skoltech offers

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(MSc) and

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(PhD) degrees in several different areas. The list of MSc degree programs includes: PhD degree programs include: *

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and

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* Materials Science and

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* Computational and Data Science and Engineering *

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* Petroleum Engineering

Centers for Research, Education and Innovation (CREIs)

The institute's education, research, and innovation activities revolve around Centers for Research, Education and Innovation (CREIs), 5 Project Centers and 1 Center. These centers were developed to advance the aims of pursuing innovative research, delivering scientific growth, and generating world-class educational programs. * Center for Artificial Intelligence Technology (AI Center) * Center for Molecular and Cellular Biology (Bio Center) * Vladimir Zelman Center for Neurobiology and Brain Rehabilitation (Neuro Center) * Center for Digital Engineering (Engineering Center) * Center for Petroleum Science and Engineering (Petroleum Center) * Center for Materials Technologies (Materials Center) * Center for Photonics Science and Engineering (Photonics Center) * Center for Engineering Physics (Physics Center) * Project Center for Next Generation Wireless and IoT (Wireless Center) * Project Center for Agro Technologies (Agro Center) * Project Center for Energy Transition and ESG (ESG Center) * Center for Energy Science and Technology (Energy Center) * Research Center in artificial intelligence in the direction of optimization of management decisions to reduce the carbon footprint (Applied AI Center) * Advanced Studies

Notable faculty

* Artem Oganov *

Ivan Oseledets Ivan Oseledets (russian: Оселедец Иван Валерьевич; born July 6, 1983) is a Russian computer scientist and mathematician and professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. He is best known for the tensor tra ...

Olga Dontsova Olga Anatolyevna Dontsova (born January 7, 1959) is a Russian biochemist and an academician at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests includes: structure and functions of RNA-containing cellular machines, functional properties ...

Mikhail Gelfand Mikhail Sergeyevich Gelfand (russian: Михаил Сергеевич Гельфанд; born 25 October 1963) is a Russian Bioinformaticist and molecular biologist. He is a member of Academia Europaea, Vice President Biomedical Research of Skolko ...

Albert Nasibulin Albert Galiyevich Nasibulin (russian: Альбе́рт Гали́йевич Насибу́лин, born 23 March 1972 in Novokuznetsk city, Kemerovo Region, USSR) is a Russian material scientist recognized for the contributions to synthesis of nan ...

Stanislav Smirnov Stanislav Konstantinovich Smirnov (russian: Станисла́в Константи́нович Cмирно́в; born 3 September 1970) is a Russian mathematician currently working at the University of Geneva. He was awarded the Fields Medal in ...

Leadership

* Alexander Kuleshov, President

Notable alumni

* * Natalia Berloff, former Professor of Photonics, Currently Professor at

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* Edward F. Crawley first President of Skoltech. Currently Professor at

References

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