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Elena Kopoleva, Elena Petrova, Maria Timofeeva and Pavel Filatov won grants in a competition for undergraduate and postgraduate students at St. Petersburg universities.
Iriney Vasilev will study optical methods for measuring temperature at the nanoscale using upconversion nanoparticles in biological media.
Lidia Mikhailova gave an invited lecture at the 10th International School for Young Scientists «Nonlinear and Biomedical Photonics» in Novosibirsk.
Pavel Filatov has become head of ITMO Collab, ITMO’s competition of interdisciplinary student projects, where the best teams receive up to 1,000,000 rubles.
Members of our team have published a paper on nanoparticles carrying microRNA-200a for treating acute and chronic liver diseases.
Konstantin Arabuli, Nikolaj Zhestkij, Lidia Mikhailova and Maria Timofeeva have completed their PhD studies. Next comes the defense of their dissertations.
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We talked with our former colleague and now collaborator, Yali Sun. Yali left our team in April 2025 to become a professor at a leading Chinese university, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Wuhan, China. We asked her about her new position, her experience in our team and her plans. Today Yali combines research, teaching, building a new team and lab, and administrative work.
You are now a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology! How are things going? What is your work in the new role focused on?
My work at HUST is going well, but I have a lot on my plate. I do research, teach, build a new team and lab, and deal with administrative matters.
You were one of the first members of our group back in 2017. What did you learn working with our team that you now apply in your own lab?
I joined the team in 2017 as a PhD student, and over the years I went from student to mentor, supervisor and principal investigator. This experience is invaluable for building a new team and lab at HUST. Now I clearly understand which students are a good fit for working together and what equipment a lab needs on a limited budget. I will continue the research topic started in our team at ITMO and add a new direction related to machine learning in inverse optical design.
What was the most unexpected or valuable challenge you had to overcome while working with us?
The most unexpected and valuable challenge was applying for grants. At our faculty I could study and do research in English, but grant applications had to be written almost exclusively in Russian. I had to translate the text with Google Translate, and I could not take part in the oral defense.
What is your funniest or warmest memory of your time in Russia?
I really enjoyed the whole time I worked in our team in Russia over the past few years. We had group meetings in English, defenses, team events and much more. Many colleagues helped me with work and everyday matters. I especially want to thank everyone for the warm wishes when I was in the hospital and for the memory book. I took them with me to China and will always keep them in my heart.
What advice would you give to the current members of our team?
I would advise group members to try different exchange programs and to build collaborations with teams working on similar or complementary topics. Opportunities can appear at any moment!
