Collage arranged from private photos unless otherwise specified, left to right: Oleksii Chyzhyk, Sofia Kovalchuk, Ruslana Koziienko (Photo: copyright Oleh Shpudeiko), Daria Nepochatova, Nadiia Skobel and Svitlana Stupak
This year 23 PhD students from four 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 Bayreuth, Germany on Thursday, 1st October 2025, within the framework of the Dyas of Ukraine in Bavaria (Bayreuth, 1-2 October 2025):
- Oleksii Chyzhyk, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany: PhD research title “Regulation of Green Bonds as an Emerging Financial Instrument” (tentative)
- Sofia Kovalchuk, Department of Internal Medicine I, Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation at the University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany: PhD research title “Targeted inhibition of activated neutrophil transmigration ameliorates the myeloproliferative neoplasm phenotype in mice” (tentative)
- Ruslana Koziienko, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University (CEU), Vienna, Austria: PhD research title “The Effects and Affects of the (Im)Mobility of Men During Russia’s Full-Scale War against Ukraine” (tentative)
- Daria Nepochatova, Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages, University of Oxford, UK: PhD research title “Ukrainian Women’s Almanacs as Nineteenth-Century Feminist Literature” (tentative)
- Nadiia Skobel, Kherson State University, Ukraine: PhD research title “Flora of Old Cemeteries Within Right Bank Dnipro Grass Steppe District” (tentative)
- Svitlana Stupak, The Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Siegen, Germany: PhD research title “The Construction of Irony in American Graphic Narratives at the Turn of the 21st Century” (tentative)