Ferroic Physics Laboratory

Education and career development:

• One doctoral dissertation and 5 candidate dissertations have been defended.
• Internships at the Laboratory have been organized for students and postgraduates of Russian and German universities.
• A new core department has been created at the Saint Petersburg University Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics – ITMO and the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences «Photonics of dielectrics and semiconductors» (2017). For masters degree students we have launched the «Linear and nonlinear magneto-photonics» course (2017-2018).
• Our researchers regularly read lectures at universities of Saint Petersburg and work as visiting professors at universities of other cities and countries.
• Member of the academic staff of the Laboratory participated in such science popularization projects as the All-Russian Initiative «Open Laboratory» (2018), the All-Russian Conference for Young Scientists «Far Horizons of Science» (2017, «Science Slam» (2018).

Organizational and structural changes: The created laboratory is a fully independent scientific division furnished with modern equipment that allows to solve a wide range of problems in ferroics physics.

Collaborations:

• Technical University of Dortmund (Germany): joint research within international grants, academic exchange (short-term mutual visits of postgraduates and academic staff members), collaborative publications in leading scientific journals
• Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands): joint research, academic exchange, organization and conducting international seminars in Saint Petersburg, collaborative publications in top scientific journals, joint international seminars «Novel Trends in Physics of Ferroics» NTPF-2014, NTPF-2017
• Institute of Spectroscopy: joint research including projects funded by the Russian Scientific Foundations and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, joint publications in leading academic journals
• Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University (Russia): joint research, staff training (lecture courses, internships, case studies for students), joint publications in leading academic journals.
• University of Nottingham (United Kingdom): joint research including projects funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, academic exchange (short-term visits of academic staff), collaborative publications in leading scientific journals.
• Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Russia): production of samples for research, collaborative publications, joint publications in leading scientific journals
• Shanghai Institute Of Ceramics of the Chinese Academy Of Sciences (China PR): production of samples for research, joint research within international grants, collaborative publications
• Moscow Technological University – MIREA (Russia): joint research within a Russian Science Foundation grant, collaborative publications
• Mega-science facilities (ESRF – France, BESSY II – Germany, FLASH-DESY – Germany), FERMI-Elletra – Italy, SPRING – Japan, Kurchatov Institute – Saint Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics – Russia): conducting experiments, publications in leading scientific journals
• Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences: joint research within a Russian Science Foundation grant, collaborative publications
• Saint Petersburg University Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics – ITMO (Russia), Saint Petersburg State University (Russia): staff training, lecture course development