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Recognized international and Russian scholars will join the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) schools in 2016 to conduct breakthrough research in the field of natural and engineering sciences. They became the winners of the recruitment competition held to attract experts with a working experience in the leading national and international centers. The competition was held in the framework of the FEFU Competitiveness Enhancement Program implemented in the framework of the Russian Academic Excellence 5top100 Project.

FEFU participates in the 5top100 Project, which is designed to stimulate emergence of the new advanced university leaders in Russia by 2020: universities that would have an effective management structure and a strong international academic reputation, and that would be capable of setting the development trends in the international industry of higher education.

The winners of the competition will strengthen the capacity of such FEFU Schools, as the School of Natural Sciences, the School of Engineering and the School of Biomedicine.

Sergei Gutnikov from the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) will join the School of Natural Sciences. Since 2009 he has been running Oxford Progress Ltd, a British consulting company, which focuses on training of applicants applying for European grants. At FEFU the scholar will work at the position of the Professor at the Department of Ecology.

Laboratory of Laser Spectrography of the School of Natural Sciences will be joined by Professor Evgenij Zubko from the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) and by Professor Ashot Gevorgyan from the Yerevan State University (Armenia). Evgenij Zubko is engaged in theoretical development of the methods of remote sensing and their practical application in research of objects of cosmic and terrestrial origins. Professor Zubko's credentials are confirmed by his successful work in the leading universities of Japan and Finland over a significant number of years. Ashot Gevorgyan has a PhD in physics and mathematics focusing in the field of condensed matter physics and is the author of over 200 scientific publications.

Sergey Konovalov, who authored over 80 scientific publications in the international journals along with several monographs and 5 invention patents, was invited to the FEFU School of Engineering to enhance the level of school’s scientific research in the field of material science and also to organize an effective functioning of the Centers of the joint use of the lab equipment. The capacity of the School of Engineering will also be strengthened by Valeri Babushok, a scholar with an international reputation in the field of kinetics of the chemical reactions of burning who authored over 170 scientific publications in the leading international and national journals.

Irina Galkina from the D.I. Ivanovsky Research Institute of Virology (Moscow, Russia) will join the Laboratory of Ecology of Micro-organisms at the School of Biomedicine. At FEFU she will study isolation and identification of the viral strains and will participate in the field virological expeditions. Researcher Wojciech Piekoszewski from the Jagiellonian University (Poland), who specializes in the field of drug toxicology, food products, pharmacokinetics and toxicokinetics, will start working at the Laboratory of Food Biotechnologies and Pharmaconutriciology at the School of Biomedicine.

The recruitment competition seeking experts with a working experience in the leading national and international centers has been held at FEFU since July 2015. Since then some 30 scholars were invited to work at the University.