Introducing the finalists of the 2024 UKRAINET PhD Thesis Presentation Contest

This year 17 PhD students from six countries applied to our annual PhD Contest. After a careful peer review the following PhD students have been invited to present their work at the Final, which will take place in Saarbrücken, Germany on Thursday, 26th of September 2024, within the framework of the UKRAINIAN DAYS IN SAARLAND (Saarbrücken, 26-27 September 2024):

Left to right: Oleksandr Kshyvanskyi, Anna Myronova, Olena Nosovska, Svitlana Palii, Anastasiia Zhuravel (Collage arranged from private photos)
  • Oleksandr Kshyvanskyi from the Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Department of the Hight Energy Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine: “Evaluation of the Silicon Tracing System detector modules for the CBM experiment” (tentative title)
  • Anna Myronova from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany: “Genetics and Genomics of Cardiovascular Diseases” (tentative title)
  • Olena Nosovska from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany: “Enantioselective Lewis base catalyzed allylation of Nitrogencentered latent (pro)nucleophiles. Preparation of an integrin inhibitor library” (tentative title)
  • Svitlana Palii from the Ivan Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, Ukraine: “Molecular mechanisms of endothelial dysfunction at the influence of ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers” (tentative title)
  • Anastasiia Zhuravel from the The Hertie School, Berlin, Germany: “What role for International Human Rights Law in regulating armed conflict?” (tentative title)