Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) provides a high-level expertise of S&T projects in various fields: physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, informatics, aerospace and others, thus covering all the expertise required to assess and evaluate ongoing RTD projects in cooperation with USA and EU institutions. The world-wide reputation of its scientists guarantees the high-quality level of activities dealing with evaluating Russian S&T system and provision of highlights and most advanced know-how on specific technical research projects and proposals of S&T cooperations. CAS also provides solid links with a network of major Universities and Research Centers in Russia.

CAS was founded to carry out the interdisciplinary research, create new interdisciplinary courses for students and postgraduates, and manage both scientific and educational projects. Together with the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute and the St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, CAS hosts the biannual international conference “Fullerens and atomic clusters”. The staff of the Center consists of 30 scientists highly qualified in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, and mathematics. In addition, about 80 researchers from other institutions participate in projects managed by CAS. During the last 3 years, the CAS team performed more than thirty projects for the Ministry of Education and Science, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, European Commission, the USA National Institutes of Health, INTAS, Samsung Electronics Co, Service d'Aeronomie CNRS (France), DAAD (Germany), NATO etc. These projects resulted in the development of new algorithms for high-performance modeling of nano-technological processes and processing of biological information, design of new drugs and medical materials based on new forms of carbon, as well as new nanomagnetic materials. Scientific results of the CAS team are published in leading journals such as Nature, Genetics, Bioinformatics, Physical Review Letters, Physics of Solid State etc.