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Source: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University –
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The Polytechnic University held its first meeting of the Personnel Committee for the Selection of Foreign Faculty in 2026, chaired by Vice-Rector for International Affairs Dmitry Arsenyev.
Following the meeting, the commission selected 89 foreign faculty members who will work in virtually all SPbPU institutes. The range of countries from which foreign faculty members come is expanding annually. This year, faculty members from 20 countries will be teaching students.
In 2026, Saurav Dixit, Vice-Rector for Research at Chitkara University (India), PhD, will once again join the SPbPU faculty.
This year, two winners of the Open Doors competition for postdocs, representatives of Mangalam University (India), PhD (Mathematics) Pravar Chaudhary and PhD (Mechanical Engineering) Kumar Kaushal, will also try their hand as teachers at the SPbPU PISH "CI".
In 2025, the share of international faculty at SPbPU amounted to approximately 10% of the total number of research and teaching staff at the university. Following two commissions held in 2025, 178 international faculty members began working at SPbPU. The number of young candidates and doctors of science among invited international faculty members is increasing every year, many of whom are graduates of the Polytechnic University. Last year, graduates of our postgraduate program—Candidates of Science Khashayar Sadeghi, Seyed Hadi Gazai, and Panah Mehdi Basati—worked at the Institute of Energy. They actively publish in scientific journals (more than six articles in Q1), have won two grants from the Russian Science Foundation and several grants from foreign universities, and teach in master's programs taught in English. This year, these young scientists will continue to work at SPbPU.
This year, young PhD candidates will also work at the Institute of Mathematics and Information Technology (IMMT) – Dmitry Yumanov (Belarusian-Russian University), at the Institute of Biological Sciences and Biology – Ani Makichyan (Armenia), at the Institute of Economics and Information Technology – Tran Thanh Dat (Vietnam), and others.
As Vice-Rector for International Affairs Dmitry Arsenyev noted, the number of employed INPR students directly impacts a university's standing in global rankings, and SPbPU, despite all external difficulties, maintains a strong position in this indicator.
The Polytechnic University is intensively developing communication channels with representatives of the international academic community, who visit our university and not only share their experience and knowledge with students but also strengthen collaboration with Russian colleagues, participate in joint research projects, and develop educational programs.
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