Research & Expertise

Russians with children feel happier than those without children. At the same time, the number of children influences the assessment of happiness: the more children Russians have, the happier they feel. These conclusions were outlined inthe report ‘More Children, More Happiness: The Impact of the Number of Children on Russians’ Assessment of Happiness,’ presented at the XXV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, held on April 15–18 at HSE University. The study was conducted by Elena Churilova, Senior Research Fellow, and Dmitry Jdanov, Chief Research Fellowat HSE International Laboratory for Population and Health.

The anniversary 25th Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development will take place from April 15 to 18. This year, over a thousand applications were submitted to present at the conference, of which the Programme Committee selected 381 of the best research papers in their respective fields.

From 11-13 April, IDLab research assistants Matkin Nikita, Smirnov Alexey and Usanin Mikhail, who are also participants of the Academic Personnel Reserve Program, attended the retreat "Effective Strategies for Professional Development in the Academic World". This event was organised by the Center for Work with High Professional Potential Groups of the Corporate Academy of the National Research University Higher School of Economics.

On April 10, 2025, Maria Poptsova, Head of the International Laboratory of Bioinformatics at the Faculty of Computer Science at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, spoke at a meeting of the Faculty of Computer Science with a report entitled “Cardiogenetics: A Step Towards Personalized Medicine in the 21st Century”

April 2, 2025, HSE University held the First International Scientific and Practical Conference for Postgraduate and Undergraduate Students “The Improvement of Public Administration: Issues of Theory and Practice”

An article by Alexander Poddiakov titled "Intransitively winning chess players' positions" has been published in the journal Doklady Mathematics.

The key areas of the conference this year were modeling the processes of growth and development of living organisms, the dynamics of populations and communities; modeling of ecological complexity, statistical and spatial modeling; modeling of element cycles and matter flows in ecosystems, including at the regional and global levels; mathematical models in soil science and landscape science; mathematical models as a tool for supporting decision-making in problems of managing biological resources, solving climate change problems and rational nature management.

The Russian Science Foundation has completed its review of projects submitted for grants to support fundamental and exploratory research by teams, as well as 2022 grant winners applying for project extensions. In addition, interdisciplinary projects for fundamental and exploratory research awarded under the Presidential funding programme have been announced. Projects awarded under each of the three categories include submissions from researchers at all four campuses of HSE University.

March 19, 2025, International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration at the HSE University organized and conducted a roundtable titled "Virtual Reality and Real Law: Regulation of the Gaming Industry," dedicated to the development of the national video game market, digital transformation of creative industries, and issues of regulation of the industry.

Evgeny Knyazev Begins Training in the Fourth Cohort of the Management Talent Pool Development Program in Science, Technology, and Higher Education at Sirius Federal Territory