Program Overview

Advanced Technology Materials

The master's programme 'High-Tech Materials (with the additional qualification "Metrology Engineer in the Field of Metrological Support of Development, Production and Testing of Nanotechnological Products")' is designed to train academic and innovative staff for the development of high-tech sectors of the economy, industry and science that combine in-depth fundamental knowledge with a broad scientific horizon and a comprehensive understanding of the main problems in the field of nanosystems, nanomaterials and nanotechnology.

Programme Description

The training programme includes the fundamental aspects of the production, structural analysis, and investigation of material properties, as well as the application of nanoscience, nanomaterials and nanotechnology in materials mechanics, physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, medicine, environmental studies, and the social sciences. During training, students acquire knowledge of:

• Business communications
• Economic and legal fundamentals and management of processes to create research and development products
• Business English

Main Courses

Main Courses

• Visualisation of Information in Materials Science
• Master's Seminar: Introduction to Materials Science of Nanostructures and Modern Technologies for Producing Functional Nanomaterials
• Nanostructures in Science and Life
• Modern Physical Methods for Studying Nanoscale Materials
• Fundamentals of Biomedical Nanophase Materials Science
• Fundamentals of Measurement Theory and Metrology
• Fundamentals of Economics and Marketing in Science and Technology
• Legal Protection of Technical Solutions in the Field of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies (Protection of Intellectual Property)
• Practical Foundations for the Development of Scientific and Technical Products and Their Metrological Support
• Economic and Legal Fundamentals for Creation of Scientific and Technical Products

Optional Courses

• Machine Learning: Fundamentals (online course)
• Artificial Intelligence: Fundamentals (online course)

Our Advantages

• There is an opportunity to build an individual educational path
• The interdisciplinary master's programme is designed to train academic, teaching and innovative staff for the development of high-tech sectors of the economy
• The training programme includes the fundamental aspects and application of nanoscience, nanomaterials and nanotechnology in various fields
• The curriculum provides for the acquisition of knowledge in business communications, economic and legal foundations, and management of developing technological solutions, as well as business English
• The programme provides for the solution of major interdisciplinary problems at the intersection of areas of study and different branches of knowledge
• Students have access to cutting-edge equipment in the resource centres of the St Petersburg University Research Park
• Work on graduation projects includes conducting independent experimental and theoretical research activities, preparing papers for publication, and participation in grant-supported work
• There is an opportunity to do an internship at employers' organisations that are University's partners

Teaching Staff

• Igor Murin, Doctor of Chemistry, Professor
• Yury Tveryanovich, Doctor of Chemistry, Professor
• Aleksei Komolov, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor
• Alina Manshina, Doctor of Chemistry, Professor
• Valeri Tolstoi, Doctor of Chemistry, Professor

Main Areas of Research

• Computer simulation of the physicochemical properties of new carbon nanomaterials
• Fullerenes in phytobiotechnology
• Carbon nanomaterials in power industry
• Synthesis, identification and investigation of properties and application of carbon nanoclusters
• Synthesis of in situ polymer nanocomposites
• Formation of graphene nanoribbons
• Promising materials for hydrogen economy
• Liquid crystals — materials for indicators and displays
• Polymer synthesis from monomers in a micellar state
• Development of hybrid nanostructured materials
• Kinetics and dynamics of chemical reactions
• Optical biosensors and cellular process imaging
• Photopharmacology: activating drugs by light
• Optogenetics: controlling the activity of neurons by light
• Investigating the structure and properties of shape memory alloys
• Investigating physical and mechanical properties of metals and alloys
• Mechanics of nanomaterials

Career Opportunities

The graduates can work as researchers, educators and academic managers. They can also work in marketing, analysis and development of technologies for processing and production of functional, composite nanomaterials, carbon, nanobiomaterials and related products; at research and high-tech companies in the field of nanotechnology and medical biology.

Professions

• Specialist in the development of nanostructured composite materials
• Specialist in providing integrated control of production of nanostructured composite materials
• Specialist in the field of material science support of the technological cycle of production of bulk nanometals, alloys, composites based on them and related products
• Specialist in R&D organisation and management
• Expert in research and engineering
• Specialist in the field of material science support of the technological cycle of production of bulk nanoceramics, compounds, composites based on them and related products
• Educator (professional training, professional education and additional professional education)