The Institute of Advanced Data Transfer Systems is a scientific and educational department at ITMO University that trains specialists in the technical and applied development of next-gen data reception and transfer devices and laser equipment, as well as fundamental research in physical materials science and the physics of lasers based on the global integration of physical and digital systems.

Master’s programs

Advanced Laser and Synchrotron Technologies

12.04.05 Laser Engineering and Laser Technologies

PhD specializations

• 01.02.04 Mechanics of Deformable Solids;

• 01.04.07 Condensed State Physics;

• 01.04.10 Semiconductor Physics;

• 01.04.21 Laser Physics;

• 05.11.07 Optical and Opto-Electronic Devices and Complexes;

• 03.01.04 Biochemistry;

• 05.16.01 Metallurgy and Heat Treatment of Metals and Alloys;

• 05.27.03 Quantum Electronics.

Master’s and PhD students are involved in the institute's research and engineering projects, alongside the educational process.

Our graduates: 

• work in their field at specialized companies or productions;

• conduct research, design, and production activities at ITMO’s laboratories and centers;

• teach at ITMO and other educational institutions in Russia and abroad. 

Fields of study

• radio photonic data transmission systems;

• optical and radio wireless communications, including quantum technologies;

• laser communication systems;

• optoelectronic software for cyberphysical systems;

• novel materials-based elements, devices, and systems in optoelectronics and electronics;

• single-photon detectors and generators;

• assembly technologies of data transfer systems;

• promising functional materials in photonics and microelectronics;

• modeling of optical, electric, heat, and mechanic properties of functional materials and devices;

• megascience laser and synchrotron technologies;

• hydrogen energy;

• industrial Internet of Things (IoT);

• sensorics.

Among the institute’s partners are Russian and international centers and production companies: 

• Russian Railways;

• Gazprom Neft;

• Kurchatov Institute;

• Ioffe Institute;

• European XFEL;

• National Technological Initiative's Center of Competencies in Photonics;

• GS Group;

• OKB Planeta;

• Semiconductor Devices;

• Scientific and Production Association of Special Materials;

• Connector Optics;

• Ladenergoservis, etc.