Dr Oleksandra V. Ivashchenko carries out her research at the University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands. In 2022 she co-founded the Science for Ukraine initiative and serves as one of its coordinators since.
Oleksandra graduated cum laude with an MSc in Applied Physics in 2012, with a minor in medical physics, from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. After her graduation she worked as a conversion engineer at Materialise NV in Kyiv, focusing on medical applications of rapid prototyping. She then pursued a PhD in medical physics, beginning an industrial PhD project in February 2013 between TU Delft and MILabs (the Netherlands), a preclinical imaging company, as a Marie Curie fellow. After gaining her PhD she carried out her postdoctoral research on image-guided surgery at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) and later pursued a clinical residency in medical physics at Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC).
See Oleksandra’s short biosctech here.
The International Organisation for Medical Physics (IOMP) was founded in 1963. It represents over 30,000 medical physicists worldwide and 90 adhering national member organisations plus 2 affiliate organisations. The IUPAP Young Scientist Award was established and funded by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and awarded by the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) as the IUPAP affiliated International Commission for Medical Physics. The Award includes a cash prize of 1000 Euro, an IUPAP medal and the IOMP certificate. In addition, a short Biography of the Awardee will be published in e-Medical Physics World (eMPW).