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The project “Investigation of Persuasion Processes and Conformal Behavior in Social Groups of Different Age Categories” will be carried out under the supervision of Proferssor V.A. Klyucharev. The project focuses on the neurocognitive mechanisms of conformal behavior and social influence.

A team of young scientists from the HSE University’s Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience has created “Scientists’ Multiverse” — a series of comics, videos, and quizzes highlighting the achievements of Russian neurobiologists and psychophysiologists. Developed in 2025 with support from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the project aims to make complex science more accessible and engaging for young people. Its final product is an interactive laboratory map designed to help students and early-career researchers navigate opportunities in the field.

The HSE University International Laboratory for Mirror Symmetry and Automorphic Forms and the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA) held a joint online conference on mathematical physics. The results of the laboratory research presented at the event will be published in leading academic journals.

On April 17, 2026, the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy (IDLab) held a research seminar. Anna Daviy, Associate Professor at the Department of Management (HSE University St. Petersburg) and Junior Research Fellow at IDLab, presented the results of a study on the relationship between business model innovation and organizational performance in the cultural sector.

Interdisciplinary research is a defining feature of modern science, and this trend is especially pronounced in the field of quantum technologies. Physics, chemistry, mathematics, and biology form the core fields of research at the Centre for Quantum Metamaterials of the HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM). Prof. Alexei Vagov, director of the centre, discusses its key activities, which focus on exploring the prospects of creating materials with predefined properties through manipulating their structure at the quantum level.

On April 16, 2026, Maxim Shkurnikov, head of the Laboratory for Research on Molecular Mechanisms of Longevity, took part in the work of the evaluation committee of the section "Genetic Technologies in Healthcare" within the framework of the II All-Russian Forum of Young Scientists (https://кму-ран300.рф/pdf/programm_RAN_2026.pdf).

Elena Dragalina-Chernaya delivered a talk titled "Epistemology of Formal Philosophy" at the scientific seminar "Epistemological Application of Mathematical and Computer Modeling in the Study of Scientific Cognition," which took place on April 17 at the All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences (VINITI).

Sankha Basu, Assistant Professor at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Delhi), taught a course at the Spring School 'Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy' hosted by the International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy. This was his first visit to a Russian university, and he shared his impressions with the HSE News Service.

On 18 April 2026, during the Sixth Student Biochemical Forum at the Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Dr. Evgeny N. Knyazev, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Physiology at the HSE University Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, delivered an invited lecture entitled “Microfluidic Devices for Organ-on-a-Chip Modeling” within the “Advanced Research Methodologies” session.

Dr. Henry Norman, Chief Researcher at the HSE International Laboratory for Supercomputer Atomic Modeling and Multiscale Analysis, has been awarded a HSE Certificate of Honor. The award was presented for many years of fruitful scientific work, significant contributions to the development of fundamental research, and active work in the field of scientific research.