The TM Department members participate in the intensive co-operative research together with experimentalists and technologists at Ioffe Institute working at laboratories and groups headed by Profs. S. A. Gurevich, V. I. Ivanov-Omskii, P. S. Kop'ev, A. Ya. Shik, A. N. Titkov, Yu. P. Yakovlev, Drs. B. Ya. Ber, V. P. Evtikhiev, S. V. Ivanov, V. P. Kochereshko, T. L. Makarova, I. S. Tarasov, as well as at the St.Petersburg State Technical University: Prof. L. E. Vorobiev and at the State Optical Institute: Dr. I. A. Khrebtov.

The staff is also strongly involved in the international scientific collaboration with several groups headed by:

• Prof. F. Beltram, Scuole Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
• Prof. Yu. M. Galperin and Prof. Tom H. Johansen at the Low-Temperature Lab.,  Dept. of Physics, University of Oslo, Norway
• Prof. P. Lavallard, Groupe de Physique des Solides, Universites Paris 6 et Paris 7, France
• Prof. W. Ossau, Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Wuerzburg, Germany
• Prof. N. V. Tkach, Chernovtsy State University, Ukraine
• Prof. M. Hou, Physique des Solides Irradies, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgique
• Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. H. W. Weber, Atominstitut der Oesterreichischen Universitaeten, Wien, Austria
• Dr. rer. nat. J. Pezoldt, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Institut fuer Festkoerperelektronik, Ilmenau, Germany
• Prof. M. Militzer, Centre for Metallurgical Process Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• PD Dr. J. K. N. Lindner, Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, Germany
• Prof. W. Pompe, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Institut fuer Werkstoffwissenschaft Germany, Dresden
• Prof. Dr. L. Schimansky-Geier, Applied Stochastic Processes, Humboldt University at Berlin