Katerina Tikhonova is the younger daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin. She is an acrobatic dancer and is associated with the Moscow State University (MSU). The website of MSU also mentions that she is attached to the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty and is a co-author of a chapter in a math text book as well as six scientific papers since 2011. She is running two publicly funded projects at the University, the National Intellectual Development Foundation (NIDF) and the National Intellectual Reserve Centre (NIRC), and oversees Innopraktika, a $1.7 billion project to expand its campus. She has reportedly signed contracts worth several million dollars from state-owned organizations that she directs. In March 2015, she was appointed as a deputy vice-rector of the university. She participates in the niche dance discipline, acrobatic rock‘n‘roll, in which a dancer couple performs a mixture of energetic dancing and virtuosic acrobatic moves. In 2013, she and her partner came fifth in a world championship event in Switzerland. She also holds senior management positions at the World Rock‘n‘Roll Confederation and the Russian national federation.
