Professor Lars Bojer Madsen has been appointed Honorary Professor at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) as of March 1, 2013 for a 3-year period.

The appointment is justified by the desire to establish closer contact with active researchers in the West.  In addition to scientific collaboration, it is planned that Lars Bojer Madsen gives a short course at MIPT.

MIPT was established after World War II, inspired by Caltech.

“Its founders and early staff members were Nobel Prize winners P.L Kapitsa, N.N Semenov, and L.D. Landau. Nobel Prize winners are among its graduates as well. Many Fiztech professors are leading scientists in Russia, among which are more than 80 academics and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences."