Attracting the Best Scientists – 2
On September 21st the Russian Government Grant Council announced the names of the winners of the second open competition for Russian Government grants for state support of scientific research conducted under the supervision of leading scientists in Russian universities. Among the 39 winners were two applications from the Higher School of Economics.
As a result of this victory, over the next two years Panos Pardalos, expert in IT and computing systems, and Jacques-Francois Thisse, a renowned economist, will head international laboratories at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Panos Pardalos is Professor at the University of Florida and Director of the Center for Applied Optimization. He has given lectures at universities and research societies all over the world (Princeton University, DIMACS Center, Institute of Mathematics and Applications, FIELDS Institute, AT&T Labs Research, Trier University, Linkoping Institute of Technology). Professor Pardalos is a world renowned expert in global and combinatorial optimization. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Global Optimization, managing editor of several book series, a member of the editorial board of several international journals and organizer of several international conferences.
Jacques-Francois Thisse is an economist from Belgium, and Professor of economics and regional science at the Université catholique de Louvain. He has worked as a guest professor at the Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg), Sorbonne, INSEAD, University of Pennsylvania, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, University of Tel Aviv, University of Kyoto and other large international universities. He is one of the founders of the European Economic Association (EEA) and was a member of EEA’s board between 1986 and1989. He has been the editor of many different journals, including Journal of the European Economic Association, International Journal of Economic Theory, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Jacques-Francois Thisse is the author of five monographs and over 250 articles on economics, theory of management, economic methodology and applied mathematics.
A total number of 517 leading scientists along with 176 Russian universities participated in this competition for Russian Government grants. According to the competition rules, the researcher needs to personally head the laboratory and be present at the Russian university for at least four months of the year
According to the requirements of the Ministry of Education and Science, each researcher takes responsibility for project administration and final reporting, while the university must provide suitable conditions and facilities for research.
The first such competition was held in 2010 and since there was so much interest from the international research community and Russian universities, the Ministry of Education and Science decided to conduct a second competition.
The selection of the winners was organized in line with international standards. Expert groups in specific areas of science examined the applications. The expert groups were made up of 1299 people, 609 of them being foreign experts and 690 from Russia.
Last year two of the HSE’s applications also won the open public competition of the Ministry of Education and Science for state support of research conducted in Russia under supervision of leading scientists – the application by the HSE Faculty of Mathematics to attract of Fedor Bogomolov, Professor at the University of New York, and the application by the Saint Petersburg branch and the Faculty of Sociology to bring Ronald Inglehart, Profesor at the University of Michigan to the HSE. As a result, Prof. Bogomolov runs the HSE Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications and Prof. Inglehart heads the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research at the HSE Saint Petersburg Branch.
Andrey Shcherbakov, HSE News Service
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