14 SSU Research Projects Became Winners in RSF Contest for Small Research Groups
Russian Science Foundation has summed up the results of the largest competition in its line-up of small individual research groups. According to the results, 1,822 projects of scientists from 74 Russian regions received support. RSF will allocate more than 2.7 billion rubles for their financing in 2022.
There were more than 9 thousand applications from 81 Russian regions. 25% of the leaders of the supported projects are young researchers under the age of 39, 34% of the leaders are women.
14 projects of scientists from Saratov University became the winners: the Parseval frames in number groups project by Sergei Lukomskii, the Development of methodology for ultra-high-speed processing of big data in genomics using GB-speckle structures (on the example of the causative agents of African swine fever and infectious nodular dermatitis) project by Sergei Ulyanov, the Nonlinear dynamics of size-dependent lattice cylindrical shells considering thermo and electroelasticity project by Yekaterina Krylova, the Inverse spectral problems for functional differential operators with a frozen argument by Sergei Buterin.
For the contest Aleksei Pavlov presented the project titled the Perspective methods for diagnosing cooperative dynamics of complex networks based on experimental data: theoretical aspects and application in neurophysiology, Svetlana Stetsyura prepared the A new approach to the formation of multilayer nanostructured film biosensors project, Vyacheslav Grinyov won the victory with the following project: the Synthetic approaches to the creation of libraries of condensed imidazole heterocycles, their functional derivatives, and complexes in order to create perspective biologically active substances for medical purposes.
The foundation will finance Polina Dyomina’s project tilted the Photo-switchable fluorescent labels for coding and tracking individual cells, Anna Shipovskaya’s project titled the Chiral donor-acceptor systems based on chitosan salts and isoforms of organic ligands for the creation of complementary selective biomaterials, Tatyana Rusanova’s project titled the New approaches to the isolation and control of the content of antibiotics in various objects, Alexander Kashin’s project titled the Study of the patterns of cytogenetic variability of apo- and amphimictic taxa Chondrilla (Asteraceae) of the European part of Russia and Western Kazakhstan due to their genesis and dispersal, Yevgenii Popov’s project titled the Cartilaginous fishes in the Volga Paleogene: dynamics of diversity and paleobiogeographic connections at the beginning of the Cenozoic, Elena Kuznetsova’s project titled the Mineralogical and petrographic studies of antique container ceramics of the classical and the Hellenistic periods, and Daniil Anikin’s project titled the Civil religion in modern Russia: memorial practices and features of theological discourse.
The supported projects will be carried out in 2022-2023 by small research groups of up to 4 people. The average size of a grant for a project is 1,49 million rubles per year.
The main contest objective is to create and develop new topics for research teams and organise research groups. The grants will be allocated in order to implement fundamental and exploratory research in 2022-2023 in all scientific areas of the Russian Science Foundation classifier.
According to Head of the Office of Scientific Work Olga Moskalenko, such a contest was held by Russian Science Foundation for the first time. This is an analogue of the previously existing competition of initiative research projects of Russian Foundation for Basic Research, but with significantly greater requirements for the project leader and its team. ‘Almost 40 applications were submitted for this competition of research projects from our organisation, 35% of them won. It is important to note that among the supported projects there are projects both in the natural (mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geology) and the humanities (history, philosophy). I sincerely congratulate our scientists on a worthy victory and wish them success in the implementation of their projects,’ Olga Moskalenko commented.