Research & Expertise

An international team of scholars studied how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Europeans’ stress levels and their trust in their national governments and the healthcare systems. They found that respondents were most stressed by the state of the national economy, and only after that, by the risk of catching COVID-19 and possibly being hospitalized. In Western Europe, people trust their governments more than in other EU countries. The results of the study were published in Royal Society Open Science.

On March 18, HSE University will host the international Neurotechnology & Freedom Conference, which will be held online. In an exchange with HSE News Service, Vasily Klucharev, director of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience and tenured professor at HSE University, discussed what views on the compatibility of these two concepts exist in modern science and art.

Researchers at the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neurosciences have studied how transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) affects the primary motor cortex during and after stimulation. Scientists have shown that tACS affects the cortex only during online use (during stimulation). The article was published in Scientific Reports.

At 1-6 of March Novosibirsk hosted an international conference "Dynamics in Siberia", which was attended by the laboratory of dynamical systems and applications staff and students of the Faculty of Informatics, Mathematics and Computer Science.

On March 10, 2021, a scientific cooperation agreement was signed between the members of the «Genetics of cardiovascular diseases» consortium

On March 4 Plamen Akaliyski (PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Keio University, Japan) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "COVID-19, Existential Insecurity and Value Change in Japan".

On March 4, the regular seminar of the Modern Demography series was held. At the seminar, Samin Aref (research scientist, Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany) presented "Studies on the migration of researchers and the academic life course using bibliometric data"

On the regular IL SIR seminar that took place on the 25^th of February, Maria Kozlova, Tatiana Ryabichenko, and Ekaterina Matveeva made a report on the topic of 'Attitudes Towards Educational Inclusion Among Students of Pedagogical Universities: Results of Qualitative Research.'

On February 25 Petra Sidler (Doctoral student, National Center of Competence in Research – The Migration-Mobility Nexus and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "Finding new latent integration patterns in acculturation research".

On Wednesday, February 24, the National Research University Higher School of Economics hosted an Institute of Control Sciences seminar "Expert opinion and data analysis".