Almaz Zinnatullin among winners of 2024 Zavoisky Prize for Young Scientists
This year’s pedestal taker is a senior research associate of the Laboratory of Quantum Simulators at the Institute of Physics of Kazan Federal University.
Before the announcement, the closing ceremony of the international scientific conference Magnetic Resonance – Current State and Future Perspectives was held on 27 September. It was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the discovery of the phenomenon of electron paramagnetic resonance by Yevgenii Zavoiskii, whose birthday is celebrated on 28 September.
“The conference was attended by 180 people. 8 plenary lectures were held, we awarded two venerable scientists with the International Zavoisky Prize,” said Marat Gafurov, director of the Institute of Physics. “We heard 14 invited papers, 57 spoken reports and 84 poster presentations”.
Diplomas were awarded to the best poster presentations and performances in the 24th International School-Conference Actual Problems of Magnetic Resonance and its Applications. Among them are young researchers of the Institute of Physics: Fadis Murzakhanov, Research Associate of the Laboratory of Prospective Platforms for Spin Quantum Manipulations, Yekaterina Batueva, Assistant Lecturer of the Department of Medical Physics, Anelya Kadikova, Design Engineer of the Laboratory of Heterostructures for Post-Silicon Electronics, and Adeliya Garaeva, Engineer of the Laboratory of Magnetic Radio Spectroscopy and Quantum Electronics.
This was the 27th iteration of the Zavoisky Prize for Young Scientists. This year 12 postgraduate students and young scientists from universities and research institutions of Kazan under the age of 35 at the time of application became participants of the competition. On September 20, the in-person stage of the competition was held. Preference was given to projects in which the nominees independently set original problems and demonstrated non-trivial approaches to their solution.
The amount of the prize is 100 thousand, 75 thousand and 50 thousand rubles for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, respectively. The laureates were awarded by Guzel Sagitova, Deputy Head of the Kazan Executive Committee, Dmitrii Tayurskii, First Vice-Rector, and Marat Gafurov. They and Yurii Talanov, Lead Researcher of the Laboratory of Superconductivity and Spintronics Problems of the Kazan Physical-Technical Institute (KPTI), as experts of the award, were presented with appreciation letters.
“Be devoted to your work, stay in science, open new horizons,” Ms Sagitova addressed the awardees. “I wish you to find your place, because it is you, young scientists, who can look at different problems from a completely different angle, from any angle.”
“This year’s prize has a special meaning, as we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the discovery of electron paramagnetic resonance, and the awarding of the prize is a bright, worthy conclusion of everything that we call Zavoiskii Week in Kazan,” said Dr Tayurskii.
The winners of the Kazan Zavoisky Prize were Ilnur Gimazov, Junior Research Associate of the Laboratory of Superconductivity and Spintronics Problems of KPTI (1st place); Bulat Akhmadeev, Research Associate of the Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry (2nd place); Almaz Zinnatullin (3rd place). Zinnatullin said that his achievements in the research of the Mössbauer effect and Mössbauer spectroscopy were noted. The physicist has been working in this area since 2014. This is his first experience of participating in the competition.
“I was very lucky. Among the contestants are my colleagues, acquaintances, and university friends. There was very high competition this year,” commented Zinnatullin.
It is especially pleasant for him to receive a prize named after a great scientist, “Yevgenii Zavoiskii is an icon, a symbol of the Institute of Physics of our university and the whole university, of all physics. Despite the hardest times of the war, he managed to develop the direction and discover the phenomenon of electron paramagnetic resonance within the walls of Kazan University. We can say that he is our guiding star.”
The senior researcher of the Research Laboratory shared that colleagues, specialists in EPR and NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance), come to the rescue when performing work tasks related to materials science.
Zinnatullin also gave a couple pieces of advice to young scientists: “First, one should not be afraid of discoveries. Go forward despite the difficulties – it will only get easier from here.”
Today the physicist continues to work on wireless transmission of information using Mössbauer gamma quanta. In addition, he is researching new materials, which find their application in a wide range of tasks – from biomedicine to oil and gas technologies.