An important part of the mission of the FAIR Russia Research Centre (FRRC), to be jointly financed by ROSATOM and the Helmholtz Association, will be to provide opportunities for young, high-calibre Russian scientists to be involved in the construction of FAIR. Doctoral and postdoctoral candidates from Russia will enjoy highly favourable working conditions at the FRRC in addition to involvement in international research. Promising young foreign scientists visiting the FRRC will benefit from the knowledge of outstanding Russian physicists while gaining exposure to Russia's dynamic research infrastructure. “This represents another milestone in German-Russian collaboration, which is something we value highly and have been expanding for many years,” said Professor Jürgen Mlynek, President of the Helmholtz Association.
The involvement of the Helmholtz Association with Russian scientific research goes even further however. Together with the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the first eight Helmholtz Russia Joint Research Groups were selected today from a field of 25 applications. Each of these research groups, composed primarily of up-and-coming German and Russian research scientists, will be provided an annual budget of €150,000 for a period of three years. The funds will be used for joint experiments and expeditions as well as to create more attractive working conditions for next-generation Russian scientists in their home country in parallel to their inclusion in major international research projects conducted by the Helmholtz Association.
The following Helmholtz Russia Joint Research Groups were selected:
Title: Physics Analysis and Calorimetry at the Terascale
German Partner: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchtrotron
Russian Partner: Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP)
German Co-leader: Dr. Kerstin Borras
Russian Co-leader: Dr. Roman Mizuk
Title: High Dose Irradiation Damage of RAFM Steels
German Partner: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Russian Partner: Ulyanovsk State University
German Co-leader: Dr. Ermile Gaganidze
Russian Co-leader: Dr. Viacheslav V. Svetukhin
Title: Hydrogen Isotopes Retention in First-Wall Materials for ITER and Fusion Power Reactors
German Partner: Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
Russian Partner: Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute (MEPhI)
German Co-leader: Dr. Matej Mayer
Russian Co-leader: Dr. Anna V. Golubeva
Title: Molecular pathogenesis of bilateral breast cancer
German Partner: German Cancer Research Centre
Russian Partner: N.N. Petrov Institute of Oncology
German Co-leader: Prof. Dr. Manfred Schwab
Russian Co-leader: Evgeny N. Suspitsin, MD., PhD
Title: Structural aspects of biocompatible ferrofluids by scattering methods: Stabilization, properties control and applications
German Partner: GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht
Russian Partner: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)
German Co-leader: PD Dr. Regine Willumeit
Russian Co-leader: PD Dr. Mikhail Avdeev
Title: ECOLINK - Understanding effects of environmental toxicants at population and community levels: A link between ecotoxicological experiments and field observations within Eurasian climate scenarios UFZ
German Partner: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Russian Partner: Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, SB RAS
German Co-leader: PD Dr. Matthias Liess
Russian Co-leader: Dr. (C.Sc.)Yury Yurchenko
Title: Actinide nano-particles: formation, stability, and properties relevant to the safety of nuclear waste disposal
German Partner: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Russian Partner: Chemistry Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)
German Co-leader: Dr. Melissa A. Denecke
Russian Co-leader: Dr. Stepan N. Kalmykov
Title: Derivation of germ line competent rat ES cells for gene targeting
German Partner: Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine Berlin-Buch
Russian Partner: Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences
German Co-leader: Dr. Natalia Alenina
Russian Co-leader: Alexey Tomilin, PhD
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