Areas of training

Area of training: 14.03.02 “Nuclear Physics and Technologies”

Program profile: “Physical Materials Science”

Program objectives: preparation of bachelors for professional research and technological activities to solve fundamental and applied problems in the field of physical and radiation materials science.

Duration of full-time education: 4 years.

Graduating Department: Department of Materials Science (No. 9).

Area of professional activity: development and research of materials for nuclear technology; technology for obtaining modern materials for nuclear power plants; processing and operation of radiation-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials.

Objects of professional activity: structural and functional radiation-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials; methods and installations for research and diagnostics of the state and properties of reactor materials.

Features of the curriculum: unified basic training for the Institute of Nuclear Physics and Technology of MEPhI in the humanitarian, natural-scientific and engineering disciplines during the first two years. The main part of the professional training of students is carried out by Department No. 9 in the 3rd and 4th courses.

In the 4th year, professional competencies are deepened, work is carried out in the laboratories of the Department and industry research and educational centers.

Attractive aspects of the program: deep physical and mathematical, as well as professional materials science and information technology training and competencies in the field of materials science, which ensures reliable employment.

List of enterprises for internship and employment of graduates:
JSC VNIINM, NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, JSC NIKIET, JSC “Krasnaya Zvezda”, FSUE “NII NPO “LUCH”, IMET RAS and other scientific and technical centers.

Area of training: 22.03.01 “Materials Science and Technologies of Materials”

Program profile: “Physics of Materials and Processes”

Program objectives: preparation of bachelor graduates for professional research and technological activities to solve scientific research and technological problems using modern equipment and research methods in the field of physics of modern materials and their processing, providing them with basic humanitarian, social, economic, mathematical and natural-scientific knowledge, universal and subject-specialized competencies.

Duration of full-time education: for graduates of specialized secondary vocational educational institutions: 4 years.

Graduating Department: Department of Materials Science (No. 9).

Area of professional activity: development, research, modification and use (processing, operation and disposal) of materials of inorganic and organic nature for various purposes; the processes of their formation, shaping and structure formation; transformations at the stages of production, processing and operation, including in the process of irradiation.

Objects of professional activity: the main types of modern structural and functional inorganic (metal and non-metal) materials, including radiation-resistant and corrosion-resistant compositions, and organic (polymer and carbon) materials; composites and hybrid materials; superhard materials; intellectual and nano-materials, films and coatings; methods and installations for research and diagnostics of the state and properties of materials.

Features of the curriculum: a unified basic training for the faculty in the humanitarian, natural-scientific and engineering disciplines during the first two years and professional training by Department No. 9 in the 3rd and 4th courses.

In the 4th year, professional competencies are deepened, work is carried out in the laboratories of the Department and industry research and educational centers.

Main professional disciplines: condensed matter physics, physical materials science, basics of system modeling, physical methods for materials research, structural and functional materials, fundamentals of materials production technology, physical properties of solids, strength physics and mechanical properties.

Attractive aspects of the program: deep physical and mathematical, as well as professional materials science and information technology training and competencies in the field of materials science, providing reliable employment.

List of enterprises for internship and employment of graduates:
JSC VNIINM, NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, JSC NIKIET, FSUE “NII NPO “LUCH”, IMET RAS and other scientific and technical centers.

Area of training: 14.04.02 Nuclear Physics and Technology

Program profile: “Materials for Nuclear and Renewable Energy”

Program objectives: The program is designed for preparation of masters with a good knowledge of physics and mathematics and includes disciplines that allow studying the physicochemical and mechanical properties of structural and fuel materials, research methods of the structural-phase state of materials, principles for developing advanced structural and functional materials. Possession of the knowledge of the processes occurring in solids under the influence of external factors, research methods of the behavior of a solid under the influence of various types of irradiation, the creation of radiation-resistant materials used in nuclear power plants and thermonuclear reactors, as well as skills in working with modern equipment, will ensure the successful participation of masters in international projects aimed at further development of fundamental knowledge about materials and at solving the most complex applied problems of world nuclear science and technology.

Duration of full-time education: 2 years.

Graduating Department: Department of Materials Science (No. 9).
StrAU (strategic academic unit): Institute of Nuclear Physics and Technology.

Area of professional activity: Theoretical and experimental studies for solving research and technological problems in the field of reactor materials science and renewable energy, including: physical principles of obtaining and processing of materials; study of the structure and properties of functional and structural materials using modern equipment; study of the processes of changing the structure of metals, alloys and ceramics under extreme operating conditions; search for technological solutions when creating materials of new generations with enhanced functional properties for use in modern energy-intensive technology; highly qualified operation of modern technological equipment.

Objects of professional activity: Modern and advanced materials for power plants; modern technologies for obtaining of materials; physical and physicochemical phenomena in the processes of obtaining, processing and operating of materials under extreme conditions (high temperatures, high stresses, irradiation, corrosion action, etc.).

Features of the curriculum: The optimal combination of fundamental and applied education, which consists in additional physical-mathematical training, obtaining of practical skills in studying of experimental methods for research of materials, mastering computer technologies and professional practical training. Practical classes and scientific research are carried out using modern analytical and high-tech equipment.

The educational program is extremely flexible, what allows students to choose a set of disciplines in accordance with the intended learning path: “Advanced Technologists in Materials Science” (some of the disciplines are taught at JSC “VNIINM” and FSUE “NII NPO “LUCH”) and “Materials under Extreme Conditions” (part of the disciplines are taught at the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”). Disciplines of the professional module are taught by highly qualified associate professors and professors (including foreign ones in English).

Main professional disciplines (common for two trajectories):
Special Chapters of Theoretical Physics; Special Chapters of Higher Mathematics; Radiation Damage and Effects in Nuclear Physics; Nuclear Physics Methods to Study the Structure and Properties of Materials; Modern Ideas of the Structure of Materials; Modern Research Methods of the State of Materials; Metrology, Standardization and Certification; Specialized Software Packages for Numerical Modeling and Analysis; Experimental Methods of Materials Science; Nuclear Fuel Materials; Functional and Structural Materials for Nuclear Power Plants; Computer and Information technologies in Science and Industry; Modern Problems of the Sciences of Materials and Processes (Selected Sections of the Modern Materials Science); Functional Materials for Power Engineering.

Main professional disciplines (for the trajectory “Advanced Technologies in Materials Science”):
Modeling of Technological Processes; Structural Materials of Nuclear Reactors; Composite Materials; Liquid Metals; Methods of Non-Destructive Testing; Special Issues of Materials Science; High Temperature Nuclear Fuel; Superconductor Technologies; Technologies of High-Temperature Materials; Materials Science Problems of Ecology.

Main professional disciplines (for the trajectory “Materials under Extreme Conditions”):
Research Methods of Reactor Materials; Fusion Reactor Materials; Modification of Materials; Materials Science of Nuclear Power Plants; Semiconductor Technologies; Special Issues of Radiation Materials Science.

List of enterprises for internship and employment of graduates:
SC “Rosatom”: JSC VNIINM, NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, IMET RAS, FSUE “NII NPO “LUCH”, JSC NIKIET, JSC VNIIKhT, OKB “Gidropress”, RSC “Energia”, JSC “SNIIP” and other scientific and technical centers.

Area of training: 22.04.01 “Materials Science and Technologies of Materials”

Program profile: ” Development of materials for innovative technologies ”

Program objectives: The program is aimed at preparation of masters, both in the field of computational condensed matter physics and in the field of high technologies of materials. Many modern problems that the science of materials solves cannot be investigated in the required completeness and accuracy by conventional theoretical and experimental methods. Direct natural experiments are too long, expensive, often dangerous or simply impossible. As a result over the past 20 years, computational physics has acquired the status of an independent powerful methodological direction in the field of materials research along with experimental and theoretical physics. Modeling of any object or phenomenon by methods of computational physics requires a clear statement of the problem followed by the development of a self-consistent plan for a computer experiment. This program is aimed at developing these skills supported by an intensive introduction to the fundamentals of computational methods of condensed matter physics and innovative technologies for the production and processing of materials. The program involves a combination of disciplines in the physics of materials and technological processes, programming languages, visualization methods and supercomputer technologies.

Duration of full-time education: 2 years.

Graduating Department: Department of Materials Science (No. 9).
StrAU (strategic academic unit): Institute of Nuclear Physics and Technology

Area of professional activity: Theoretical and experimental studies for solving research and technological problems in the field of physical materials science; development of new materials with specified properties by using modern methods of computer simulation of their structural-phase state in relation to modern technology.

Objects of professional activity: Metals, alloys and compounds, composite materials from inorganic components, semiconductors, dielectrics, physical and physicochemical phenomena in the processes of their production, processing and operation, hardware and information systems to study and control the quality of these materials.

Features of the curriculum: The curriculum of the program provides for additional enhanced physic-mathematical training, the study of experimental methods for the research of materials, the mastery of modern computer technologies, and professional practical training. The program provides for a choice between two learning paths: “Modeling in Materials Science” and “New Materials and Technologies”. Disciplines of the professional module are taught by highly qualified associate professors and professors (including foreign ones in English).

Main professional disciplines (common for two trajectories):
Special Chapters of Theoretical Physics; Special Chapters of Higher Mathematics; Radiation Solid State Physics; Metrology, Standardization and Certification; Specialized Software Packages for Numerical Modeling and Analysis; Experimental Methods of Materials Science; Nuclear Fuel Materials; Functional and Structural Materials for Nuclear Power Plants; Computer and Information Technologies in Science and Industry; Modern Problems of the Sciences of Materials and Processes (Selected Sections of the Modern Materials Science).

Main professional disciplines (trajectory “Modeling in Materials Science”):
Radiation-Induced Processes in Solids; Computer Simulation Methods in Condensed Matter Physics (Part 1); Phase Field Theory; Methods and Principles of Visualization; Computer Simulation Methods in Condensed Matter Physics (Part 2); Ab Initio Calculations in Condensed Matter Physics; Physical Fundamentals of the Computer-Aided Design of Materials; Selected Issues of Computer Simulation in Condensed Matter Physics; Neural Network Methods in the Development of New Materials; Introduction to the Kinetics of Phase Transformations; Parallel Programming.

Main professional disciplines (trajectory “New Materials and Technologies”):
Technologies of Modern and Advanced Materials; Modeling of Technological Processes; Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies; Modern Ideas of the Structure of Materials; Modern Research Methods of the State of Materials; Theory and Technology of Powder Consolidation; Laser and Micro-Technologies; Alternative Energy Materials; Material Science Problems of Ecology.

List of enterprises for internship and employment of graduates:
JSC VNIINM, NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, IMET RAS, FSUE “NII NPO “LUCH”, JSC NIKIET, JSC VNIIKhT, OKB “Gidropress”, RSC “Energia”, JSC “SNIIP” and other scientific and technical centers.