Research & Expertise

John W. Berry presented the podcast "How Shall We All Live Together" for the International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR) - https://intercultural-academy.net/

On Wednesday, September 16, the National Research University Higher School of Economics hosted a regular meeting of the All-Moscow seminar "Mathematical methods for analysing optimal solutions in economics, business and politics".

Deputy director of the Center for Sociocultural Research Prof. Klaus Boehnke received the award "Outstanding Psychologist outside the United States" from the American Psychological Association (International Psychology - APA Division 52).

Annual Conference SABE 2020 on Behavioral Economics hosted by the International Laboratory for Experimental and Behavioural Economics on 22-26 July, is over

Researchers from HSE University have developed new approaches for regulating the expression of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 enzymes, which play a crucial role in cell infection with SARS-CoV-2. The scholars discovered that small non-coding microRNA (miRNA) molecules are capable of performing a targeted decrease in ACE2 and TMPRSS2. The results of the study have been published in PLOS ONE journal.

As the situation with COVID-19 has shown, mistakes associated with insufficiently developed policy measures in medicine, science, education and other socially significant sectors of the economy are very costly for society. In the July issue of Nature, First Vice-Rector, HSE ISSEK Director Leonid Gokhberg discussed the topic of the growing practice of making management decisions based on big data analysis.

Fedor Bogomolov was invited to to become a member of the Academia Europaea for his outstanding achievements as a researcher.

The master's program "Financial Strategies and Analytics" in which students study text mining, showed the implementation of the results of IDLab projects in the educational process

On July 23, the regular seminar of the Modern Demography series was held. At the seminar, László Németh (research scientist, Laboratory of Demographic Data, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany) and Ainhoa Alustiza Galarza (research assistant, Laboratory of Demographic Data, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany) presented the recently established Short-term Mortality Fluctuations (STMF) data series.