The graduate of the "German-Russian Institute of Advanced Technologies" (GRIAT), Pavel Savinkov, has been nominated for the rating "30 most promising Russians under 30 years" of the business magazine Forbes in the category science and technology.
Opened in 2014 in Kazan, GRIAT is a project funded by the German Academic Exchange Service and the Republic of Tatarstan to establish engineering master's degree programmes according to German standards at the Kazan State Technical Research University (KNRTU-KAI), the renowned Tupolev University. The TU Ilmenau as consortium leader and the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg are exporting English-language courses to Kazan. The students complete part of their education in Germany, and upon successful completion of their studies they receive a Master's degree certificate from both KNRTU-KAI and the German partner university.
Pavel Savinkov very successfully completed the Automotive Engineering course exported by TU Ilmenau at GRIAT. He comes from Naberezhnye Chelny, the second largest city in Tatarstan, and his father, a chief designer in automotive engineering, encouraged his interest in vehicles and automotive engineering at an early age. Thus, after completing his bachelor's degree at Tupolev University, Pavel Savinkov pursued a master's degree in cooperation with the Technical University of Ilmenau, specializing in "Automotive Engineering". He wrote his master's thesis "Vehicle stability control with combination of yaw rate and side-slip control" at the Department of Automotive Engineering and was also active in research projects. After successfully graduating, he worked as a researcher at Tupolev University from 2017. Today, the 27-year-old is the head of a development team for driverless driving systems at Arrival Ltd in Saint Petersburg. Arrival Ltd is an international manufacturer of electric and automated buses, vans and light trucks.