SibFU provides unique opportunities for both research and education. Since the university foundation its material and equipment base has been enlarged 5 times due to special-purpose investments.
The SibFU research analytic Common use center "Knowledge-intensive research and analytic methods of new mineral raw and nano-materials", which is the infrastructure element of the university innovative system, allows to handle massive cross-disciplinary problems in the field of hi-tech.
The University possesses:
- a supercomputer, one of the most high-performance computers in Russia;
- a space data receiving centre and a centre of seismic prospecting;
- an observatory fully equipped with a weather station and a lunar-planetary camera;
- a complex of equipment for physical and chemical research;
- biotechnological, clinical and biological, nanotechnological and electronic laboratories.
For the purpose of providing international recognition to the research conducted by faculty and staff, postgraduate and Ph.D students a project of publishing an own scientific journal has been launched. "SibFU journal" is a peer-reviewed journal consisting of five thematic series: "Humanities and Social Sciences", "Mathematics and Physics", "Biology", "Chemistry", "Engineering and Technologies". The articles are published both in Russian and English.
One of the most important university activities in the field of innovations is the foundation of small enterprises aimed at the transformation of the new knowledge into the new products, which is a modern and opportune field for Russian universities. SibFU founded over 40 small innovative enterprises in the fields of technologies, consulting and services.
A number of publications by the SibFU staff in international journals has risen 4 times since the foundation of the University, and the amount of awarded grants has turned 6-fold.