The International "Young Lighting Scientists" Contest is held annually as part of the International Specialized Exhibition for Lighting Engineering and Lighting Equipment Interlight | Smart City & Home and the All-Russian Scientific and Technical Conference "Lighting Engineering Innovations of Russia".
Russian and international experts - professors from leading universities and research organizations have selected the best papers from students and young lighting professionals. The final of the contest took place on October 24, 2025, at the Interlight | Smart City & Home exhibition in Moscow.
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The Russian National Committee of the International Commission on Illumination together with the Interlight | Smart City & Home exhibition annually holds the "Young Lighting Scientists" contest. The goal of the contest is to identify the best scientific paper in the field of light and lighting among young professionals and students. Papers selected by the program committee are evaluated by a jury consisting of representatives of educational and scientific organizations. The jury selects 8 best papers for in-person presentations, based on which the jury members choose the winner and prize-winners of the contest.
Participation in the contest is free. All submitted papers undergo "blind" peer review by the program committee. The criteria and review form are given in the 2025 Contest Regulations.
1st Place — Viktoriya Gritsaenko for her project "Experimental Research of Irradiation Regimes for Microgreens in Hydroponic Conditions." Scientific supervisor: P.A. Smirnov, Ph.D., Associate Professor, National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute" (MPEI), Moscow.
2nd Place — Mikhail Abramov for his work "Development of a Far-Field Spectrogoniophotometer." Scientific supervisor: S.V. Prytkov, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Head of the Lighting Engineering Department, Ogarev Mordovia State University, Saransk.
3rd Place — Nikita Sych for his research "Applying a Mesopic Photometry Model for Street Lighting Calculations." Scientific supervisor: V.Y. Snetkov, Ph.D., Associate Professor, National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute" (MPEI), Moscow.
1st Place — Danila Nikandrov for his project "Concept of Light-Graphic Communication in the Historic Center of St. Petersburg." Scientific supervisor: O.A. Vul, Ph.D. in Pedagogy, Associate Professor, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg.
2nd Place — Alexey Ilyukhin (National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute", Moscow) for his proposal "Reconstructing the Lighting at Moscow Metro's Planernaya Station." Scientific supervisor: A.G. Fomin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute" (MPEI), Moscow.
3rd Place — Elizaveta Larkina and Viktoria Razgovorova for their work "Multimedia Design for a Car Audio Festival (3D Mapping)." Scientific supervisor: E.O. Khudoleeva, Assistant, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok.
1st Place — Nurefşan Sönmez for her work “An Integrated Optimization Model Using Machine Learning for Daylighting, Thermal Comfort, and Energy Efficiency in Historic Townhouses.” Scientific supervisors: Cilasun Kundaraci A., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Yaşar University, Izmir, Turkey; Ugurlu C., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Yaşar University, Izmir, Turkey; Erkan Y., Ph.D., Professor, Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES), Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
2nd Place — Wang Yang for his presentation “Indoor Lighting Intelligent Control Using Context-Aware-Based LLM Agent and Domain Knowledge Base.” Scientific supervisors: Fang Q., Professor; Sun F., Professor, Anhui Jianzhu University, China.
3rd Place — Xu Liankun for his project “Framework for Green Lighting in Tunnel: Balancing Energy Performance with Ecological Requirements.” Scientific supervisors: Shen Y., Ph.D.; Feng S.Z., Ph.D., Professor; Zhu H.H., Ph.D., Professor, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China.
Nikita V. Sych "Research on the features of human vision in twilight lighting conditions", scientific supervisor – Snetkov V.Yu., Ph.D., Associate Professor, NRU "MPEI", Moscow.
Mikhail V. Abramov "Assessment of variations in the results of calculations of integral values of colorimetric quantities of LED luminaires depending on the measurement grid step of the spectrogoniometric experiment", scientific supervisor – Prytkov S.V., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Acting Head of the Lighting Department, N.P. Ogarev Mordovia State University, Saransk.
Victoria A. Gudemchuk "Research on color rendering of a lighting system with adjustable spectrum", scientific supervisor – Fomin A.G., Ph.D., Associate Professor, NRU "MPEI", Moscow.
Arina K. Lisianskaya "Principles of a modular lighting system using mobile hospitals as an example", scientific supervisors – Monina T.A., Ph.D., Professor, Head of the "Industrial Design" Department, Antonov I.I., Lecturer, "Industrial Design" Department, Stroganov Russian State University of Art and Industry, Moscow.
Olga A. Averkova "Natural light in the Church of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist", scientific supervisor – Tolkacheva K.P., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Materials Science Department, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk.
Vladislava S. Kozminykh "Architectural lighting of a passage arch as an element of a building and urban environment", scientific supervisor – Karpenko V.E., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Architectural Environment and Interior Design Department, School of Engineering, Far Eastern Federal University.
Li Junliang "A Study of Healthy Lighting for Learning Performance and Visual Fatigue in School-Aged Children with Reading and Writing Tasks", scientific supervisor – Luoxi Hao, Ph.D., Tongji University, China.
Wang Tongyue "Study on alertness and visual perception of LED lighting color temperature in classroom", scientific supervisor – Luoxi Hao, Ph.D., Tongji University, China.
Sönmez Nurefşan "Performance Evaluation of Interior Shading Systems for Daylight Availability, Glare and Thermal Control", scientific supervisor – Arzu Cılasun Kunduracı, Ph.D., Yaşar University, Türkiye.
All papers approved for participation in the contest are published in the journal of the Russian National Committee of the International Commission on Illumination "Innovative Lighting Engineering". The journal has been published since 2022. Included in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI).
