Research & Expertise

In March 2021 the HSE University and Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) were awarded an institutional partnership grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to foster cooperation between these two institutions and to involve in it a broader group of younger fellows and doctoral students. On May 27th this project will start with a digital workshop "Varieties of Populism in East and West" (deadline for submission is April 23rd; for more info about the workshop see the link at the end of the news). We interviewed Professor Dr. Katharina Bluhm, director of the Institute for East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, about the goals of this project and prospects of cooperation between the HSE University and the FUB.

HSE University researchers have identified the genes that play a crucial role in breast cancer metastasis. The results of the study were published in the journal PLOS ONE.

On April 7, 2021, Daria Salnikova successfully defended her PhD thesis on the topic: "The relationship between objective and subjective economic well-being of the population in post-Soviet Russia", submitted for the degree of candidate of sociological sciences

Topic: Feasible Joint Posterior Beliefs
Date & Time: April, 15; 18:00 - 19:00
Where: online platform Zoom

Dmitry Kirpishchikov presented the results of a review of studies on corporate governance in the BRICS countries

From April 5 to 9, the international conference "One-Parameter Semigroups of Operators" was held in an online format.

On April 9, 2021, the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration, together with British scientists from the University of Bradford Professor V. Virakkodi, S. Sivaraja and Professor V. Vikantesh, held a Theory Workshop on the interaction of citizens and public digital platforms.

Petr Parshakov, researcher at ID Lab, presented the study “How Heuristic Hiring Practices Lead to Nonoptimal Outcomes: The Case of Obese Workers” at the seminar of NTNU (Norway)

In celebration of Russia’s Year of Science and Technology, we continue our series about HSE University’s international laboratories, which are headed by world-class scientists and scholars. The first of these, the Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications, was established in October 2010. Below, Laboratory Head Dmitry Kaledin discusses the Lab’s history, research, achievements, and current activities.

April officially marked the beginning of the peak forest fire season across Russia, and preventative measures have recently been discussed at the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters (also known as The Ministry of Emergency Situations, MChS) and at a meeting in which the President of the Russian Federation participated. Regions have already started taking measures to prevent forest fires, and a team of researchers from the Faculty of Economic Sciences of HSE University has proposed a mathematical model by which the effectiveness of these measures can be evaluated. Using this algorithm, they compared Russian regions in terms of the success of their firefighting activities. Details of the work have been published in the collection ‘Dynamics of Disasters: Impact, Risk, Resilience, and Solutions’.