Grant and Stipend Award Procedures.
The Foundation's Academic Council and Advisory Boards

The Dynasty Foundation adheres to the principles of transparency and openness. The Foundation has developed and continues to perfect its competition procedures and its mechanisms for awarding grants and stipends.

Scientific expertise and grant application selection for our Science and Education programs is provided by the Academic Council of the International Center for Fundamental Physics, Moscow.

V.A Rubakov, chair, Academic Council, International Center for Fundamental Physics, Moscow

The council's members are distinguished scientists who represent leading Russian and international theoretical physics research centers: V.A. Rubakov, chair — Institute for Nuclear Research (Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow M.A. Vasiliev — Lebedev Physical Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow K.P. Zybin — Lebedev Physical Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow V.A. Novikov — Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow K.A. Postnov — Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Moscow M.V. Sadovsky — Institute of Electrophysics (Russian Academy of Sciences, Urals Division), Ekaterinburg R.A. Suris — Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Saint Petersburg M.V. Feigelman — Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences), Chernogolovka D.G. Yakovlev — Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Saint Petersburg O.I. Loiko, executive director. The Academic Council establishes selection criteria and determines potential grant and stipend recipients.

Members of the jury discuss competing works from 2009

For each of the programs in its other strategic areas of work, the Foundation forms special advisory boards to provide expertise and review grant applications.

A special jury made up of experts with no university or other organizational affiliations reviews applications in our competition for young mathematicians.

The jury members are experts in various branches of mathematics. The jury is co-chaired by Pierre Deligne, a distinguished Belgian mathematician and recipient of the Fields Medal (the highest international award in mathematics), and Viktor Vasiliev, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Jury members:

Pierre Deligne — co-chair Viktor Vasiliev — co-chair M.S. Agranovich V.K. Beloshapka A.V. Bulinsky Yu.M. Burman — academic secretary V.M. Bukhshtaber A.M. Vershik E.B. Vinberg A.L. Gorodentsev S.M. Gusein-Zade M.I. Zelikin Yu.S. Ilyashenko — deputy chair V.Yu. Kaloshin V.V. Kozlov

S.K. Lando S.V. Matveev S.M. Natanzon L.A. Pastur S.Yu. Nemirovsky A.G. Sergeev I.A. Taimanov D.V. Treshchev B.L. Feigin — deputy chair A.Ya. Khelemsky А.G. Khovansky M.A. Tsfasman A.Kh. Shen — academic secretary V.B. Shehtman A.N. Shiryaev

The Expert Council for the grant competition for young biologists specializing in molecular and cellular biology includes world-famous scientists.

Expert Council members:

• Dr. Peter Geiduschek, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Section of Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego
• Dr. Joachim Messing, Professor of Molecular Biology and Director, Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University
• Dr. Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and Professor, George Washington University
• Dr. Thomas Steitz, American crystallographer, co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University
• Dr. Jack W. Szostak, American cytogeneticist, co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Professor, Harvard Medical School

Russia's leading teachers and scholars, men and women who lecture at the best schools and universities in the country, serve on the advisory board of our support program for math and physics teachers. They select the winners in our competition for high school math and physics teachers. This advisory board is chaired by V.A. Ilyin, academician and professor, Moscow State University.

The Expert Council for Competition of Educational Projects for School Children in 2012 includes the chair B. G. Saltikov, Professor and Director, Polytechnical Museum; S. S. Berdonosov, Professor and Head, Chemistry School at Moscow State University; V. V. Eremin, Professor, Moscow State University; Zh. М. Rabbot, multiple Soros Teacher and Deputy Director, All-Russia Distance Education Multisubject School (VZMSh); Yu. I. Levin (Saratov), Professor and Dean, Department of Nonlinear Processes, Saratov State University; А. V. Seliverstov, Docent, Moscow State University; D. V. Kokorin, Director for Development, International Society “Memorial”; and A. Yu. Piotrovskaya, Executive Director, Dynasty Foundation.

A special advisory board of six members selects the winning projects in our Science Museums of the 21st Century grant competitions. The board includes scientists, education specialists, and museum curators.

Final decisions about competition winners are made by the Dynasty Foundation Board of Directors or the Executive Director, acting on the recommendations of our advisory boards.

The special advisory board for the Dynasty Foundation Library is comprised of:

• scientists and scholars whose professional work involves a knowledge of new and forthcoming books and publications both in Russia and abroad;
• well-known specialists in the natural sciences and humanities;
• editors-in-chief and experts from leading popular science periodicals;
• specialists in the publication and distribution of popular science literature in Russia.