Ioffe Institute

The Ioffe Institute

Formation	1918; 106 years ago (1918)[1]
Headquarters	Saint Petersburg, Russia
Membership	Russian Academy of Sciences
Official languages	Russian and English
Director	Sergei V. Ivanov
Website	www.ioffe.ru

The Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (for short, Ioffe Institute, Russian: Физико-технический институт им. А. Ф. Иоффе) is one of Russia's largest research centers specialized in physics and technology. The institute was established in 1918 in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and run for several decades by Abram Ioffe. The institute is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.