Annual Report Contents PRESIDENT’S FOREWORD 002 SKOLTECH IN BRIEF 004 01 / FOCUS & GOVERNANCE 010 Human Capital 012 Institutional Development 028 Strategic Communication 038 02 / ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE 046 Teaching & Learning 051 Research Excellence 059 Integrating Innovation 102 03 / VALUE GENERATION 110 Industry Funded Research 112 New Enterprises & Technology Licensing 116 Professional Training 120 Advisory Services 122 04 / CAMPUS 124 05 / OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT 130 GLOSSARY 133 1 I am pleased to introduce the Annual Report successfully developed and delivered for 2018, the third year of my presidency. to ISS-Reshetnev Company, allowing for The speed and scale of development the production of materials that were during the period of 2015-2018 required previously imported to Russia. The Enhanced commitment and efforts from our faculty, Oil Recovery Lab has secured yearlong R&D researchers, engineers, students, alumni, contracts with some of the largest companies management and stakeholders, all of such as Lukoil, Gazprom Neft, Zarubezhneft, whom who made Skoltech what it is today. Rosneft, Total, and Schlumberger. Specialists We are a fully operational international of the Center for Energy Science and university, attracting for permanent jobs Technology have set-up a production line specialists with multi-year experience at of cathode materials based on lithium-iron- the world’s leading universities and phosphate compounds, outdoing the world’s companies. We have established best counterparts by 8-10 %. The materials multidisciplinary teams working in the areas will serve for advanced batteries of medium of global science & technology agenda – and large-scale capacities. The first prototypes artificial intelligence, life sciences and health, of lithium-ion batteries of small capacity agro-technologies, photonics & quantum (for smartphones) have been designed. materials, energy efficiency, cutting-edge Joint research in genome editing (CRISPR- engineering and advanced materials. technologies) with Rutgers, MIT and Harvard Our reputation for academic & technology led to cutting-edge results protected with excellence was advanced by a number three joint patents. The agreement on of remarkable results. Let me give you the joint usage of inventions has already some examples. allowed the commercialization of results. An equipment complex for the production Our publication output is at the level of aluminum honeycomb packs, which of international young universities, holding are used in the aerospace industry, was top positions in the world university rankings – 2 ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH President’s foreword KAIST, Nanyang, HKUST – which is clear as speakers on the top-international evidence of the high qualification of our conferences; during the year more than academic personnel and students. 160 high-profile official delegations, I am proud to say that this year we have representing foreign ministries, diplomatic seen the highest amount of sponsored missions, international universities and research funding; a remarkable 1.1 billion global high tech companies visited our was raised via contracts with leading state-of-the-art Campus, located in Skolkovo national and international companies and Innovation Center with unique infrastructure funding agencies – Airbus, Bosch, Bitfury, for life and work in the high-tech sector Huawei, LG Electronics, Phillips, Total, of the Russian economy. Volkswagen, AM Munich Research Institute, Very recently, Zhores Alferov, a man of great Horizon 2020, RSF, RFBR and others. mind and bright personality passed away. More than 2 billion rubles has been secured Fueled by earnest love for his motherland, for the next three years. he lived a long life full of accomplishments, In 2018, Skoltech graduated its fourth but above all, he was an outstanding scholar class. About 50% are employed in Russian fully devoted to science. He made world- high-tech companies (Sberbank, Yandex, changing discoveries, founded scientific Biocad and others), R&D divisions of schools and nurtured new talents. He was international companies (Huawei, Cisco), not only a co-Chair of Skolkovo Scientific research institutions (Kurchatov, Russian Advisory Council, but a true believer of Quantum Center, institutes of the Russian Skolkovo project. This is irreparable loss Academy of Sciences). 8% of graduates for all our community. established their own startups, and 38% In the following pages, you will read are pursuing PhDs, mostly at Skoltech. more about our inspiring results, achieved We are visible in Russia and abroad. by individuals and teams – the Skoltech Skoltech scholars are regularly invited community. Alexander Kuleshov Skoltech President 3 Skoltech in Brief Mission Skoltech was founded in 2011 with Skoltech forms a part of the Skolkovo the vision of being a world-leading academic community which is creating a new, self- institute of science and technology. sustaining innovation ecosystem providing As an academic institution, Skoltech’s an engine for Russian high-tech industry primary mission is academic & technology and attracting foreign investments. In this excellence in target domains. This includes paradigm, Skoltech acts as a catalyst to performing cutting-edge basic and applied foster cutting-edge research in the advanced research and educating a next generation areas of crucial importance for Russia, of science, technology and business leaders. promote entrepreneurial activity and train Also, as a leading academic institution, internationally competitive specialists capable Skoltech generates value in the form of working in the rapidly changing research of industry-funded research and results and technology landscape. implementation, new enterprises established Furthermore, Skoltech adopts advanced by scholars, engineers, students and alumni, international practices in research, education, technology licensing, services of shared innovation & entrepreneurship, and facilities, professional training, and advisory disseminates them to Russian universities services. Therefore, Skoltech reinforces and academic institutions. Thus, in addition Russia’s technology excellence in target to direct monetary return, Skoltech creates domains and bridges the gap between applied significant indirect long-term economic and research and industry. social impact. DMITRY MEDVEDEV, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation: “Most of all, I was impressed not even by state-of-the-art equipment or outstanding Campus architecture, but Skoltech spirit and atmosphere, it is unique.” 4 ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Snapshot & Trends Focus Academic Excellence Target Domains 6 MSc and PhD 17 degree programs Centers for Research, 9 Education & Innovation papers in Scopus, 5.8 WoS per faculty Center for Entrepreneurship 1 & Innovation papers in Nature Index journals per faculty 0.5 headcount grants of Horizon 2020, 68 RSF, RFBR Human Capital growth in grant funding 65% compared to 2017 129 faculty postdocs & 229 researchers Value Generation engineers & 134 technical staff 43 enterprises students from 1000 45 countries 26 are Sk residents alumni 400 108 R&D contracts growth in R&D contracts funding 99% compared to 2017 Funding secured secured under Facilities R&D contracts state-of- Rub and grants for 2 bln the-art 2019 – 2022 136,000 sq.m campus Human capital: data is provided as of the end of 2018. Academic excellence: data on publication output is extracted from Nature Index, WoS, Scopus as of March 1, 2019. Also see page 29 (Annotation of Institutional KPIs) Value generation: enterprises established by Skoltech faculty, researchers, students, alumni (cumulative from 2013). Data on enterprises and R&D contracts as of the end of 2018. Funding secured: data as of March 1, 2019. 5 Academic & engineering personnel MSc and PhD intake, cohort 600 977 500 129 400 481 514 300 104 229 200 86 219 180 196 60 100 51 112 92 28 74 13 4 20 9 20 67 77 0 3 7 25 27 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Engineers & technicians Intake Cohort Posdocs & researchers Faculty Graduates (cumulative) Attracted funding (mln, Rub) 400 1112 224 569 132 389 265 51 61 80 2015 2016 2017 2018 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 *2015 – Skoltech first graduation Attracted funding: R&D contracts, grants, consulting services, professional training. 6 ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Papers in Nature Index journals Scopus Field-Weighted Citation Impact2 by faculty headcount1 (2018) 2015 – 2018 Caltech 2.7 MIT 2.38 Skoltech 1.51 United States 1.42 MIT 1.6 Germany 1.41 France 1.34 Skoltech World 1.00 Nanyang 0.5 KAIST HKUST 0.3 0.5 BRICS 0.90 0.3 Russian Federation 0.73 Establishment: MIT (1861), Caltech (1891), KAIST (1971), Nanyang (1991), HKUST (1991), Skoltech (2011) Skoltech enterprises (cumulative) 26 19 12 4 17 1 9 6 7 1 1 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Non-SK residents SK residents Sources of financing (mln Rub) 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 Sk grant R&D contracts & grants Endowment income distributed Other sources 1 Data is provided as of March 1, 2019. Sources: Nature Index, university web pages. 2 Indicates how the number of citations received by papers compares to the average number of citations received by all other similar papers index in Scopus (data as of March 1, 2019. SciVal source) 7 Skoltech Academic Network Univ. of Calgary (CAN)2 (Joint Hydrocarbon Recovery Lab) Polytechnique Montréal (CAN) MIT2 Key: Stage of relationship Co-Founder/partner 1 Active operational1 31 Formal Interest