On June 26, 2025, Mikhail Smolkov, a junior research scientist of Samara Center for Theoretical Materials Science, successfully passed Ph.D. defense (dissertation advisor – Prof. Alexander Krutov).Mikhail Smolkov defended Ph.D. thesis “Methods of computational geometry and topology in problems of modeling new materials and predicting their properties” in the major 1.2.2. Mathematical modeling, numerical methods and software packages at the Dissertation council 24.2.392.08 of Saratov Chernyshevsky State University.