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Recently, an HSE delegation led by President Nikita Anisimov visited China. During the visit, the parties reached agreements to expand the portfolio of joint educational and research projects with some of the country’s leading universities. This article from the HSE News Service explores the development of HSE University’s cooperation with its Chinese partners.

On May 29, 2026, the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy hosted a research seminar where IDLab Research Fellow Sofya Paklina presented a paper on how job burnout develops taking into account gender factors at the individual, leadership, and team levels. The study - co-authored with Marina Zavertiaeva, Senior Research Fellow at IDLab, Evgeniya Shenkman, Junior Research Fellow at IDLab, and Ekaterina Akhmetgalina, member of the Research Study Group for the Analysis of Reputational Effects of Bank Top Management - was conducted under Russian Science Foundation (RSF) grant No. 25-18-01037, "Job Burnout Syndrome: AI-Based Diagnostics and Assessment of Economic Effects."

The Laboratory of Molecular Mechanisms of Longevity at HSE University has implemented an approach for telomere analysis using nanopore sequencing. This technology enables the study of telomere length at individual chromosome ends and opens up new possibilities for investigating the mechanisms of aging and age-related diseases.

Felix Smirnov, a postgraduate student at the SAMMA laboratory, has been awarded a Russian Presidential Scholarship for postgraduate and adjunct students. The Russian Presidential Scholarship is one of the most prestigious forms of state support for young scientists in Russia. It is awarded competitively based on an expert assessment of scientific performance, publication activity, and the significance of ongoing research projects.

On May 20, a preliminary discussion of the PhD dissertation by Olga Rodina, a PhD-student and research intern at the International Laboratory for Population and Health, took place. Her dissertation is titled “Realization of Reproductive Intentions: Causes and Consequences of Timing Changes.”

Testing of the Exodus exosome isolation system (Exodus Bio) has begun at the International Laboratory of Microphysiological Systems

Artificial intelligence (AI) significant impacts on the economy and society, touching on a wide range of areas, from strategic management and decision-making to everyday communication. Experts from the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) used the iFORA system to map key fractures —areas where changes have already become irreversible and will only intensify.

Yulia Gorodnicheva, a researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences of HSE University, took part in “Tech-Friendly Weekend” — a youth festival held as part of the Digital Industry of Industrial Russia (CIPR) conference. The festival aims to popularize technology among young people.

Daria Prisyazhnyuk and Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova took part in the international SPACES conference at the Yerevan Center for Social and Humanities Research in Eurasia, where they presented findings from a comparative analysis of media frames surrounding the educational inclusion of children with disabilities and migrant children.

As part of a joint project between ILSIR and the Center for Curative Pedagogics — "Developing and Empirically Verifying a Conceptual Model of Quality of Life for Children and Adults with Psychiatric Disorders and Staff of Helping Organizations" — an expedition was conducted to residential social care institutions in the Irkutsk Region.