Two master students receive Sagdeev Brothers Scholarship

The annual award was established by prominent scientists Roald and Renad Sagdeevs to commend achievements in theoretical physics and chemical physics.

This year’s laureates are Alsu Samigullina and Leyla Sharipova; they were congratulated by Director of the Institute of Physics Marat Gafurov on 13 April.

Ms Sharipova studies intramolecular mobility of pillar[n]arenes, “They have the ability to form inclusion complexes and supramolecular interactions and the ability to self-assemble. These properties determine their potential for use as transport systems for the delivery of biologically active substances. The use of pillar[n]arens will prolong the effect of the drug, prevent its premature degradation, which will reduce the number of side effects and increase the therapeutic effectiveness of the drug. I am very glad that my scientific research is marked by the scholarship and am grateful to the Department of Medical Physics and the Department of Organic and Medical Chemistry of KFU, as well as the Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry of Nanosystems of the Kazan Institute of Biophysics and Biochemistry for the opportunity to conduct interdisciplinary research at the crossroads of physics, chemistry, and biology.”

Ms Samigullina’s scholarly pursuits concern relativity theory and gravity, “My master’s thesis is devoted to the study of a cosmological model based on the Higgs scalar field using a combination of numerical methods and qualitative theory of dynamic systems. It has been shown that, in most initial conditions, the cosmological model moves from expansion to contraction. Thus, cosmological models based on the classical Higgs field are unstable to finite disturbances.”