Alexander Anikin and Pavel Moseyev are the winners of the 2025 Presidential Prize in Science and Innovation for Young Scientists
The prize was awarded for the creation of betavoltaic sources of power for autonomous aerial systems and spacecraft.
Alexander Anikin was born on September 10, 1990, in Chelyabinsk. He is deputy head of department – head of research department at Bochvar High-Technology Research Institute of Inorganic Materials and holds a PhD in Engineering.
His field of scientific interest includes technology of rare, trace and radioactive elements. Publication record: more than 50 papers in Russian and international journals.
Pavel Moseyev was born on September 5, 1990, in the village of Andreyevka, Solnechnogorsk District, Moscow Region. He is Director for Production Development at Pharmatom.
His field of scientific interest includes technology of rare, trace and radioactive elements. Publication record: about 40 papers in Russian and international journals.
The work of Alexander Anikin and Pavel Moseyev is devoted to the development and implementation of technologies for manufacturing beta-radiation sources (sources of charged radioactive particles) containing tritium, and betavoltaic sources of electric power (“atomic batteries”) based on them. These devices represent innovative autonomous power sources with a long service life of over 15 years and the ability to operate under extreme conditions, including a wide temperature range from 50°C below zero to 100°C above zero and varying pressures.
The authors developed original technological approaches and instrumental methods, which ultimately made it possible to determine suitable conditions for the use of tritium in “atomic batteries,” including configurations for direct conversion of radioactive decay energy, and to obtain sources of beta-radiation with record-high specific power values.
The tritium-based beta-radiation sources created by the team surpass all known domestic and foreign analogues in radiation power, with specific power exceeding comparable products by more than 2.5 times. The tritium-based electric power sources developed are the first domestically produced devices of this type. The use of beta-radiation sources is possible in areas such as unmanned systems, aircraft and rocket engineering, as well as in harsh climatic conditions, including the Far North, to ensure the operation of autonomous sensors, memory units and other systems requiring uninterrupted power supply.
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Dmitry Butylsky is the winner of the 2025 Presidential Prize in Science and Innovation for Young Scientists
The award was presented for his work on developing membranes and membrane-based methods for the selective separation and concentration of ions, forming the basis of a low-reagent technology for extracting lithium from natural waters and industrial solutions.
Born on July 4, 1992, in the village of Krylovskaya, Krylovsky District, Krasnodar Territory, Dmitry Butylsky is a leading researcher and associate professor at Kuban State University and holds a PhD in chemistry.
Research interests: electrochemistry.
Publication record: 120 papers published in Russian and international journals.
Dmitry Butylsky’s research is focused on the development of nanopore ion exchange membranes and low-reagent sorption membrane technologies for the efficient extraction of lithium from natural brines and spent lithium-ion batteries. He has proposed an integrated, low-chemical-consumption sorption membrane technology based on a hybrid electrobaromembrane approach. This method combines the advantages of electromembrane and baromembrane techniques within a single system, enabling the selective separation of lithium ions from chemically similar sodium and potassium ions, as well as from the more abundant calcium and magnesium ions.
Selective separation and concentration of ions became possible thanks to the ion exchange membranes developed and patented by Dmitry Butylsky, which are resistant to the formation of deposits from poorly soluble calcium and magnesium compounds, as well as to the improved electrodialysis devices he also designed and patented. The proposed hybrid method has been successfully tested for lithium extraction from natural brines and from leach solutions obtained through the preliminary processing of spent lithium-ion batteries. This technology is well suited for treating highly mineralised waters in Russia’s lithium-bearing regions, where conventional processing methods are economically or technically inefficient.
Dmitry Butylsky’s scientific achievements have expanded and enriched the fundamental knowledge of membranes and membrane processes, while also laying the scientific and technological groundwork for the development of domestic, low-reagent, and environmentally friendly lithium extraction technologies.
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Viktoria Vedyushkina, Vladislav Kibkalo and Gleb Belozerov are the winners of the 2025 Presidential Prize in Science and Innovation for Young Scientists
The prize was awarded for the discovery and study of generalised billiards and for topological modelling of Hamiltonian systems.
Viktoria Vedyushkina was born on May 4, 1990, in the city of Volgodonsk, Rostov Region. She is a professor at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University and holds a PhD in Physics and Mathematics.
Her field of scientific interest includes geometry, topology, integrable systems, and mathematical billiards. Publication record: 63 papers in Russian and international journals.
Vladislav Kibkalo was born on November 9, 1994, in the city of Arzamas-16, Nizhny Novgorod Region. He is an associate professor at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
His field of scientific interest includes geometry, topology, integrable systems, singularity theory, mathematical billiards, and applications of geometry in data analysis. Publication record: 38 papers in Russian and international journals.
Gleb Belozerov was born on January 16, 1998, in the village of Yurginskoye, Yurginsky District, Tyumen Region. He is an assistant lecturer at the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
His field of scientific interest includes geometry, topology, integrable systems, and mathematical billiards. Publication record: 23 papers in Russian and international journals.
The work in fundamental mathematics carried out by Viktoria Vedyushkina, Vladislav Kibkalo, and Gleb Belozerov is devoted to the theory of billiard-like systems. Billiards model the motion of particles on a plane in a bounded area (by analogy with the motion of a ball on a billiard table) and make it possible to study classical physical phenomena and, in some cases, quantum phenomena (where material particles are replaced by quantum particles).
The main result of the team’s work was the discovery of generalised billiard systems, which the authors termed “billiard books.” In these systems, the “pages” are planes along which a particle moves, transitioning from one page to another, while the “back strip” is the common segment of the boundary of the planes. Because the shape of the “pages” can be fundamentally different, a wide variety of systems arises, making it possible to model far more complex dynamical effects of different nature (from mathematical physics and mechanics) than was previously possible. By bringing together different areas of science – topology, dynamical systems theory and Hamiltonian mechanics – the team succeeded in creating and comprehensively developing a new scientific field: the topology of integrable billiards. This, in turn, led to the creation of a new scientific school.
In addition to the discovery of generalised billiards, the team made a significant contribution to the study of integrable systems theory, in particular mechanical systems and their analogues in pseudo-Euclidean space, billiards in multidimensional spaces, and the properties of trajectories of dynamical systems.
The results obtained by the team are already being applied to the solution of fundamental and applied problems in mechanics and physics and are also being used to train neural networks.
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Artyom Isayev is the winner of the 2025 Presidential Prize in Science and Innovation for Young Scientists
The prize was awarded for the research on new bacterial antiviral immune systems.
Artyom Isayev was born on April 9, 1993, in Mukachevo. He is a senior lecturer at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and holds a PhD in biology.
His research interests include general and molecular microbiology, virology, proteomics, protein structure and function, and molecular biology. He has authored more than 90 publications in Russian and international scientific journals.
Artyom Isayev’s research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying interactions between bacteria and bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria), as well as on the functioning of several recently discovered and widespread bacterial antiviral immune systems, including BREX (the third most common system worldwide) and PARIS. The relevance of this work is driven by the growing global problem of antibiotic resistance, which has made bacteriophages a promising alternative or complement to conventional antibacterial therapy.
The researcher demonstrated that bacteria possess a diverse array of immune systems capable of recognising and suppressing viral infections. In particular, he identified molecular mechanisms which the BREX system uses to identify viral DNA and uncovered strategies used by viruses to evade BREX-mediated defence. He also investigated the PARIS system, whose activation triggers programmed cell death in infected cells, thereby preventing completion of the viral replication cycle and limiting the spread of infection within bacterial populations. For the first time, he showed that viral transfer RNA molecules are capable of suppressing bacterial immune response.
Artyom Isayev’s work significantly broadens our understanding of the diversity of bacterial immune systems and viral countermeasures. The results obtained provide a solid scientific foundation for the development of next-generation phage therapeutics designed to recognise and overcome bacterial immunity barriers through the use of anti-immune genes.