The Berlin-based newspaper DER TAGESSPIEGEL listed Dr. Nataliia Steblyna as one of the 100 most important and influential scientists in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. TAGESSPIEGEL’s laudation: Ukrainian researcher Nataliia…
Category: Awards & Prizes
Winners of the UKRAINET PhD Thesis Presentation Contest 2025 announced
Finalists of the UKRAINET PhD Thesis Presentation Contest 2025 and the Board Members of the German-Ukranian Academic Society. Left to right: Prof. Dr. Matthias Epple, Prof. Dr. Olga…
Event Report: The Ukrainian Summer School in Combinatorics 2025 (Freiberg, Germany)
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…
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…