The results of the 2021 competitions for Grants from the President of the Russian Federation aimed at providing the state support for young Russian scientists, candidates and doctors of sciences, have been summed up.

A little over 1400 applications were submitted for the competition, and 400 young candidates of sciences became the winners. Grants of the President of the Russian Federation for candidates of sciences are allocated for a 2-year period in the amount of 600 thousand roubles annually. The number of co-executors must include at least one young scientist, graduate student or student.

Two projects of young scientists of the Federal Research Center "KSB SB RAS" became the winners of the competition.

Rashid Bikbaev with the project
“Tamm plasmon polaritons for light trapping in organic solar cells”

and

Pavel Pankin with the project
“Optical bound states in the continuum in one-dimensional anisotropic photonic crystals”

We congratulate the winners and their colleagues, and wish them success in their research!