ITMO University’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering grew out of the International Research Center of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, an institution world-known for its high-profile scientific research.

The faculty staff includes over twenty prominent scientists who, having joined ITMO from other leading universities such as Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the St. Petersburg National Research Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, have already published more than 300 research papers in the world’s most prestigious scientific journals such as Nature Photonics, Physics Reports, and Advanced Materials, among many others.

As of now, the faculty runs one Bachelor’s and several Master’s programs. We believe that our educational activities are up there with our first-class research, a fact proved by the many successes of our small-but-growing alumni community.