Center for Materials Technologies

I am momentarily fully engaged in my doctoral studies in Mechanical Engineering at City University of London, motivated by a strong desire to further my field's understanding. During my time at Skoltech, I led innovative research that raised the bar and pushed the boundaries of knowledge under Dr. Dmitriy Dzhurinskiy, a renowned expert in Thermal Spray Technology. With a focus on improving corrosion properties and coating performance for submerged oil and gas infrastructure, I worked with colleagues at the Laboratory of Thermal Spray and Functional Coatings to improve post-processing methods, fine-tune process parameters, and explore the fundamental principles guiding cold spray, wire-arc spray, and flame spray technology. I am incredibly grateful to Dr. Dzhurinskiy and the Skoltech community for their unbounded support and direction; my trip would not have been possible without them.

I am currently a PhD student at Florida International University, pursuing my academic and research endeavours with full passion and commitment. I had the honour of having Dr Dmitriy Dzhurinskiy, a known expert in the field of cold spray technology, as my supervisor throughout my time at Skoltech. I conducted ground-breaking research under his guidance that advanced the field's current state-of-the-art and pushed the boundaries of the area. I worked to improve coating quality and performance with colleagues at the Laboratory of Thermal Spray and Functional Coatings by optimizing the process parameters, post-processing the consolidated coatings, and gaining a fundamental understanding of the underlying mechanisms governing the cold spray process. I owe a great deal of gratitude to my mentor and the Skoltech community for their valuable guidance, help, and support, all of which have helped to shape me into who I am today.

Hi! My name is Igor and I am a Skoltech alumnus of the 2022 class.

After completing my MSc program in the Center for Materials Technologies I decided to continue my career as an R&D Engineer in the industry. In a few months, I found such a position at AMS-OSRAM, a leading Opto Semiconductors manufacturer. First, I completed a 2-months internship there and then moved to a permanent position in the Ceramics & Polymers group with a major focus on developing new LED downconverters.

As a result of my research at Skoltech, a scientific article was prepared with my supervisor Prof. Igor Shishkovsky for publication in a Q1 Journal later this year. This project is related to the micro-SLA manufacturing of ceramic hierarchical structures for application in Solid oxide fuel cells.

I really enjoyed the period of my study at Skoltech, one of the most innovative places where dreams start to become true.

I had been studying the modeling of graphene nanobubbles when I was offered an analyst job at Yandex — Yandex Market, to be exact, where I am engaged in developing Market Analytics, an analytical tool for e-trade in Russia and data distribution. I specialize in revenue forecasts for the e-commerce market.

After completing my doctoral program I continue my research work at the Center for Materials Technologies. For example, I investigated the mechanism of obtaining silica nanoparticles from bulk silicon. As a result of the work, a scientific article was published and a patent was obtained (patent for invention No. 2758782) for an environmentally friendly method of processing bulk silicon into silicon dioxide nanoparticles in an aqueous solution.

After graduating, I went to work as a back-end developer in a startup company, one of the founders of which is my supervisor Sergey Nikolaev. I completed an internship at Yandex and currently work as a chief development engineer at DomClick