Siberian Federal University

As Eugene explained, the purpose of the Postdoc Program is to encourage young researchers with PhD Degree or Candidates of Sciences to contribute to the University research and education activities.

“The Selection accepted applications from young scientists working in areas identified in the Program to enhance international competitiveness of the University and Development Program of SibFU for 2011-2021. The requirements for the candidates were strict, for instance, publications in high-rated scientific journals (indexed in Web of Science or Scopus), but at the same time the conditions the university offered were good. It is not only and not so much about the salary, but about the opportunity to work on the unique equipment and under the guidance of scientists known in their field well beyond Russia. As practice shows, this is the main motivation for a young scientist, who decided to go to a Siberian university, — said Eugene Vaganov — SibFU will sign three-year contracts of specific work with the selected candidates.”

Postdoc Fellows of the first wave 2016:

• Josef Urban (Czech Republic) — Research Scientist, Laboratory of Ecosystems Biogeochemistry of SibFU. Academic Advisor — Senior Research Scientist of the Laboratory Alexey Rubtsov, Cand. Sc. (Biology);
• Alberto Arzak (Spain) — Research Scientist, Institute of Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology of SibFU, Academic Advisor — Senior Research Scientist of the Institute of Forest SB RAS Alexander Kirdyanov, Cand. Sc. (Biology);
• Daniel Diaz de Quijano i Barbero (Spain) — Research Scientist, Institute of Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology of SibFU, Academic Advisor — Professor of the Department of Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems of SibFU, Elena Ivanova, Dr. Sc. (Biology);
• Venugopal Nakkala (India) — Research Scientist, the SibFU Laboratory for Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy, Academic Advisor — Head of Laboratory, Sergey Polyutov, Cand. Sc. (Physics and Mathematics);
• Shubhra Pande (India) — Research Scientist, Institute of Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology of SibFU, Academic Advisor — Head of the Department of Biophysics of SibFU, professor, Valentina Kratasyuk, Dr. Sc. (Biology);
• Syed Baker (India) — Research Scientist, Laboratory of Biotechnology of New Materials in SibFU, Academic Advisor — Head of the Basic Chair for Biotechnology of SibFU, Professor Tatyana Volova, Dr. Sc. (Biology);
• Abolhasem Tohidpour (Iran) — Research Scientist, Institute of Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology of SibFU, Academic Advisor — Head of the Department of Biophysics of SibFU, professor, Valentina Kratasyuk, Dr. Sc. (Biology).

The Selection started at SibFU at the end of the last year and lasted for two months. The second wave of the Program can be launched in September 2016.