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Another stage of the joint scientific research within the large-scale institutional international project CAPES-PrINT  was held by the Director of the Centre, Professor Dr. Alexey Vagov  at the University of Pernambuco (Brazil). The research stage was dedicated to the study of multi-zone superconductivity. The promising scientific results were achieved together with the group of Professor Dr. Albino.

Researchers of the HSE International Laboratory of Statistical and Computational Genomics together with their international colleagues have proposed a new statistical method for analysing population admixture that makes it possible to determine the time and number of migration waves more accurately. The history of Colombians and Mexicans (descendants of Native Americans, Spaniards and Africans) features two episodes of admixture that occurred about 350 and 200 years ago for Mexicans and 400 and 100 years ago for Colombians. The results were published in the Plos Genetics journal.

Francesca Chiarvesio successfully passed the preliminary defense of her research project on 27th May, 2022 in a joint event hosted by the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research and the Department of Sociology of HSE University. 

Isaac Olumayowa Oni successfully had his preliminary defense of his research project on 25th May, 2022 on the platform of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research.

A seminar dedicated to demographic and family policy in three post-communist countries was held at the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research on May 23, 2022.

A workshop dedicated to the inclusion of children and youth in post-socialist countries was held at the Research-Educational Group «Inclusive Society: Comparative Analysis of Structural Conditions and Insiders' Opinions in Russia and Post-socialist Countries» аnd International Laboratory for Social Integration Research on May 3, 2022. It discussed a draft of a research article being prepared for a special issue of the journal «Children and Youth Services Review».

Medical advances are causing a gradual increase in average life expectancy. However, this comes at a price, as the number of cases of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases grows with age. Researchers from HSE University (Russia) and Northumbria University (UK) have found that bilingualism can slow down and mitigate the course of age-related changes in the human brain. The study was published in Frontiers in Psychology.

Chief Researcher, Professor Arkady Shanenko made a presentation at the prestigious International symposium "Nanophysics and Nanoelectronics", which was held in Nizhny Novgorod in March 2022.