Tatiana Chernigovskaya is an honorary doctor of Kazan Federal University
Tatiana Chernigovskaya, Director of the Institute for Cognitive Studies at St Petersburg University, Member of the Russian Academy of Education, has taken part in the celebration of the 220th anniversary of Kazan Federal University. As part of the extended meeting of the Academic Council of Kazan Federal University, the scholar was awarded the honorary title.
The petition of the Academic Council of the Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication at Kazan Federal University to award Tatiana Chernigovskaya the highest honorary title of the university "Honorary Doctor of Kazan Federal University" was supported unanimously by the Academic Council of Kazan Federal University.
During the ceremony, Tatiana Chernigovskaya emphasised that universities, including Kazan Federal University, play a vital role in shaping the country’s future. "Kazan Federal University is an absolutely legendary place. My soul is in awe. It is impossible to overestimate the work of everyone present in this hall. Together with you, we are shaping our future," said Tatiana Chernigovskaya.
Earlier, at the 5th Kazan International Linguistic Summit, Tatiana Chernigovskaya, Director of the Institute for Cognitive Studies at St Petersburg University, gave a plenary report titled "Language and the brain: the 21st century."
Tatiana Chernigovskaya is one of the leading experts in the field of cognitive sciences, including psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, and neurophysiology. In 2020, she initiated transformation of the Laboratory for Cognitive Studies into an independent subdivision of the University, i.e. the Institute for Cognitive Studies.
In 2010, Tatiana Chernigovskaya was awarded the honorary title of Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation. In 2019, she became a member of the Scientific Council on the Methodology of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Research under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2023, the online course "Neurolinguistics" created under her leadership was recognised as the winner of the international GMA Awards.
The title of Honorary Doctor of Kazan Federal University was awarded to such outstanding figures of science and culture as the writer Vasily Aksyonov; the poetess and translator Bella Akhmadulina; the famous diplomat Yevgeny Primakov; the Nobel Prize laureate in physics (2003) Vitaly Ginzburg; the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Valery Zorkin; the Director of the State Hermitage Museum, Dean of the Faculty of Asian and African Studies at St Petersburg University Mikhail Piotrovsky; and other famous scholars, educators, and politicians.