Irek Suleymanov
- Associate Professor: Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge / Department of Educational Programmes
- Irek Suleymanov has been at HSE University since 2024.
Education and Degrees
Ulyanov Ulyanovsk State Teacher Training University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
2024/2025: Completed professional retraining under the "Development of the Personnel Management Reserve in the Field of Science, Technology and Higher Education (Operational Level)" program, conducted by the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).
2024/2025: Completed professional retraining under the "Development of the Personnel Management Reserve in the Field of Science, Technology and Higher Education (Operational Level)" program, conducted by the Sirius University.
Seminar Series 'The Dynamics of Science Diplomacy: Bridging Pragmatism and Idealism'
Author and co-coordinator of a seminar series held in cooperation with the UNESCO Chair in Science Diplomacy and Scientific Heritage at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
December 10, 2025 - Second seminar: with the participation of Professor Karen Hallberg (Secretary-General of the Pugwash Conference of Scientists (1995 Nobel Prize co-laureate), Dr. Parsifal Islas-Morales (General Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in Science Diplomacy and Scientific Heritage at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)), and Ernesto Carmona, PhD student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
October 22, 2025 - First seminar: with the participation of Professor Ana Maria Cetto (President of the UNESCO Chair in Science Diplomacy and Scientific Heritage, UNAM, Mexico), Anna Glebova (HSE graduate) and Lucas Adrian Garcia (HSE Master's student).
Guest lectures
2025 - Lecture series at the UNESCO Chair on Science Diplomacy and Scientific Heritage, National Autonomous University of Mexico:"
“Mega-Science Projects: Managing Science, Diplomacy, and Strategy”
2025 - lecture “Big Country in “Big Science”. Science, Diplomacy and Law”, Ural State Law University named after V. F. Yakovlev
Participation in projects, conferences and seminars
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November 26-28, 2025. 3rd International Symposium of the UNESCO Chair on Science Diplomacy and Scientific Heritage “Cross-Continental Circulation of Knowledge and Scientific Bridges: Historical Legacies and Emerging Collaborations between the Muslim World and Latin America", Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Türkiye
- November 26, 2025. V Young Scientists Congress, session "The Legacy of IPPNW: From Confrontation to Cooperation. The Role of Scientific Diplomacy in Building a World Without Nuclear Threat" (speaker)
- November 19, 2025. Round table "Protection of Russian scientists in international scientific projects", Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev
- October 27-31, 2025. The 29th International Scientific Conference of Young Scientists and Specialists (AYSS-2025). Lecture "Ahead of the 70th anniversary of JINR. From Adumbration to Establishment of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research: An Adventure Journey in Science Diplomacy."
- October 26-27, 2025. International Joint Effort Forum (Moscow)
- October 22-23, 2025. III International Scientific Expert Forum named after A.A. Gromyko (Mogilev, Belarus). Report: Rebuilding the National Model of Science Diplomacy in Russia
- September 24-27, 2025. The First All-Russian School of Young Scientists "Science and Technology in the USSR" (Pyatigorsk, Mashuk Knowledge Center). Report: Formation of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research: Metamorphoses of the Instrumentalization of Science Diplomacy in the USSR - from Secret to International
- November 27, 2024, IV Young Scientists Congress, panel discussion “Are there boundaries to science diplomacy?”
- May 14, 2024 Round table "New horizons of scientific and technological cooperation of the BRICS countries through the eyes of young scientists" (Expert Council on the participation of the Russian Federation in the BRICS association of the National Research University Higher School of Economics)
- April 26, 2024 Seminar: "Communications Strategy of a Scientific Organization: The Fifth Wheel?" (JINR)
- March 22, 2024, Historical and scientific seminar “From “Eastern” to “Joint”: JINR as science diplomacy phenomenon”
- February 6, 2024, SCIENCE. DIALOGUE. TRUST. Winter talks, Impulse report “The current crash test for science diplomacy concept: through challenges to vitality?”
- November 29, 2023, III Young Scientists Congress, session "BRICS: Russia’s Chairmanship in 2024"
- November 17, 2023 Seminar "Corporate Ethics of a Scientific Organization: Fashion, Illusion, Reality" (JINR)
- October 8-12, 2023. International Scientific and Practical Forum "Science Diplomacy of Eastern Eurasia: Constructive Cooperation in the Interests of Global and Regional Development" (Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, speaker)
- October 9, 2023 - January 15, 2024. Introduction to Science and Tech Diplomacy: the new geopolitics of technology (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
- May 22-26, 2023. Spring School "Experts and Politicians on Science, Technology, Engeneering, Art and Mathematics Diplomacy" (University of Padua, University of Roma Tre)
- July 12, 2022. Expert club of scientific diplomacy "DUBNA GREEN CHAMBER TALKS", "Architecture of cooperation in science 2030+: restoration vs. new redistribution".
- October 20, 2022. Webinar “Communication, Ethics and the Future of Scientific Cooperation” (as the part of the Conference “Preventing Nuclear War in Conditions of the Arms Control Crisis”)
- December 1, 2022, II Young Scientists Congress, session "Prospects and Challenges for the International Integration of Infrastructure and Human Resources"