Main Research Areas

The university is proud of its research history and its worldwide recognised scholars an scientific schools.

Thus the scientific school “Quantum field theory and gravity” (Professor I.L. Buchbinder, P.M. Lavrov, V.V. Obukhov, S.D. Odintsov, I.L. Shapiro, I.M. Schwartzman, V.Y. Epp and others), according to Russian and international specialists, carries out research on a global level. In November 2011, Professor S.D. Odintsov entered the Forbes ranking of the most famous Russian scientists.

Scientific school in the field of mathematics teaching methods in higher and secondary education (Professor E.G. Gelfman, M.A. Kholodnaya ), joined many researchers, teachers of mathematics of pedagogical universities in Russia as well as creative teachers. Their outcomes are widely used in the education systems in many regions of the country.

Tomsk State Pedagogical University pays great attention to the organization and implementation of research in the following areas:

Theoretical Physics. Classification of Staeckel and conformal-Staeckel spaces in the theory of gravity.
Head:Valery Obukhov, Professor
Subdivision: Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Department of Theoetical Physics.

Organic Chemistry. Special polymer film covered ground
Head: Alexander Minich, Associate Professor
Subdivision: Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Department of Organic Chemistry

Economy and management of the national economy: theory of economic systems; macroeconomics; economics, organization and management of enterprises, industries and complexes; innovation management; regional economy; logistics.
Head: Nikolay Filonov, Senior Researcher
Subdivision: Faculty of Economics and Management, Department of Management

Russian language. Communicative style of the artistic text
Head: Bolotnova Nina, Professor
Subdivision: Department of History and Philology, Department of Modern Russian Language and Stylistics

General pedagogy, pedagogy and formation history. Managing the development of the content of teacher education
Head: Revyakina Valentina, Professor
Subdivision: Institute of Education Theory, Pedagogy Department of Postgraduate Education

Theory of training and education (mathematics, levels of general and higher education ). Innovations in teaching mathematics
Head: Emanuela Gelfman, Professor
Subdivision: Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Theory and Methods of Teaching Mathematics

Many research directions are implemented in collaboration with the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (Dubna), Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science (Moscow), the Institute of Mathematics of RAS (Moscow), the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow), Institute of Mathematics SB RAS (Novosibirsk), the University of Pennsylvania (USA ), University of Maryland (USA), University of Nagoya (Japan ), Institute of development of Educational Systems, RAS (Moscow), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), the University of Wroclaw (Poland), etc.