The final of this years’ UKRAINET PhD Thesis Presentation Contest took place at the TU Wildau on 8 October 2026 at the Days of Ukraine in Brandenburg. During…
Winners of the UKRAINET PhD Thesis Presentation Contest 2026 announced
Category: Awards & Prizes
KIU – Competence Network for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder)–Berlin receives the Ukrainian Studies Distinguished Award
European University Viadrina has received the Ukrainian Studies Distinguished Award in the category ‘Ukrainian Studies: Interdisciplinary Approach’ for its DAAD-funded Competence Network for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder)–Berlin…
Dr. Oleksandr Yagensky, co-founder and co-CEO of Ovo Labs, with co-founders Melina Schuh and Agata Zielinska, wins the Max Planck Startup Award of the Stifterverband 2026
On June 16, the startup Ovo Labs, was awarded the Max Planck Startup Award of the Stifterverband 2026.The prize, endowed with 30,000 euros, was awarded to Ovo Labs…
Anna Grebinyk is among the Zia fellows profiled by die ZEIT
Anna Grebinyk, the Treasurer of the German-Ukrainian Academic Society, was recently selected to become a Zia fellow. The German nationwide newspaper DIE ZEIT profiled the fellows, including Anna,…
Social and legal anthropologist Nataliya Tchermalykh (University of Geneva, Switzerland) is awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Dr Nataliya Tchermalykh is Research Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in the Faculty of Anthropology and Sociology. A legal anthropologist by training,…
Molecular biologist Nataliya Petryk (CNRS, France) awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant
A CNRS researcher within the Genome Integrity and Cancer unit (IGC – Univ. Paris-Saclay/Gustave Roussy/CNRS), Nataliya Petryk leads the Genome and Epigenome Replication team (Réplication du génome et…
Theoretical physicist Maksym Serbyn (IST Austria) wins an ERC Consolidator Grant
Maksym Serbyn develops theoretical frameworks to describe the complexity of many-body quantum phenomena. He has now been awarded his second ERC grant for the project “QMbeyondU: Quantum matter…
Physicist Andrii Chumak (University of Vienna) is awarded the IEEE Magnetics Society Mid-Career Award
DUAG member phycisist Prof. Dr. Andrii Chumak (University of Vienna, Austria), where he leads the Nanomagnetism and Magnonics group, has been awarded the 2026 IEEE Magnetics Society Mid-Career…
Heritage scientist Antonina Chaban is awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Heritage scientist Antonina Chaban (The Cnr-National Institute of Optics/ Cnr-Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, CNR-INO, Florence, Italy) won an ERC Starting Grant for her project HeRiDe: “Advancing HeRitage science…
Germany, DFG: von Kaven Award 2025 Goes to Mathematician Andrii Mironchenko
Andrii Mironchenko’s work is concerned with so-called infinite-dimensional systems – mathematical models that may underlie optimised, adaptive and self-regulating traffic-control systems, for example, or intelligent power networks. They…