The Ukrainian Summer School 2025 in Freiberg was organised at TU Freiberg (Sachsen, Germany) on September 15-19, 2025. It brought together an exceptional group of speakers, who offered mini-courses…
Category: Awards & Prizes
Neuroscientist Mykhailo Batiuk is awarded an ERC starting grant
Mykhailo Batiuk (Private photo) Dr. Mykhailo Batiuk, currently at the EPFL (Switzerland) won an ERC starting grant for his project sc-PTSD: Single Cell PTSD: Novel Target Identification to…
Physicist Natalia Chepiga wins an ERC starting grant
Natalia Chepiga (Photo copyright: Artem Pulkin) Natalia Chepiga will join the Department of Physics, the University of Oxford, to implement the ERC-funded project TRANGINEER: “Advancing the theory of…
Chemist Bogdan Dereka wins an ERC Starting Grant
Bogdan Dereka (Image: Jos Schmid) The EFFICACY project (Electric Field eFfects In Chemistry And CatalYsis), will be led by Assistant Professor Bogdan Dereka, who is currently a group leader for…
Oleg Sobchuk wins an ERC Starting Grant to study 200 years of European literary evolution
Dr. Oleg Sobchuk (Photo: courtesy of Ronny Barr (MPI-EVA)) The ERC-funded project MELT: Macroevolution of European Literature will study the macroevolution of European literature, focusing on the overarching…
Serhii Plokhy awarded an Oxford University honorary degree of Doctor of Letters
Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo S Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and former Director of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute, received an Oxford University honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at…
Serhij Zhadan awarded the 2025 Austrian State Prize for European Literature
Ukrainian writer, musician, volunteer and serviceman Serhij Zhadan (Сергій Жадан) has been awarded the 2025 Austrian State Prize for European Literature. This is the first time a Ukrainian…
Chemist Andrii Klymchenko wins an ERC Advanced Grant
Andrii Klymchenko, CNRS research director and head of the Photoactive Materials and Bioimaging team, is one of the winners announced by the European Research Council (ERC) for the…
Victoria Amelina posthumously awarded The Orwell Prize 2025 in the category “Political Writing Book”
Two years after her tragic death, Ukrainian writer, human rights activist was posthumously awarded the prestigious Orwell Prize for her book Looking at Women, Looking at War on…
Leonid Glazman, Maryna Viazovska and Svitlana Krakovska elected to The National Academy of Sciences, USA
In recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research physicist Leonid Glazman (Yale University, USA) has been elected as a member, and mathematician Maryna Viazovska (EPFL,…