As many as five teams had realistic chances for gold going into the last round of the Women’s section in the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai. Ukraine won…
Category: Awards & Prizes
Maryna Viazovska awarded Fields Medal
Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska (currently: professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland) is one of four researchers awarded this year’s award, one…
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels für Ukrainer Serhij Zhadan/ Serhiy Zhadan is awarded the Peace Prize of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association
One of the most renowned Ukrainian writers, in his texts Serhiy Zhadan vividly demonstrates what many have long refused to see, according to the jury. Serhiy Zhadan have received…
GERMANY, Munich: 13 Ukrainian historians are supported by the Ukraine Aid Fund
The Relief Fund for Ukrainian Historians displaced by the War, established by the Department of History of the Faculty of History and Arts at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and…
Iryna Gurevych wins an ERC Advanced grant
Bio-nanotechnology researcher Iryna Gurevych, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for her project “Modelling Text as a Living Object in Cross-Document Context”. Iryna…
Anton Kuzyk wins an ERC Consolidator Grant
Bio-nanotechnology researcher Anton Kuzyk, now at Aalto University, Finland, was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for his project on “Electrically driven DNA- origami-based machines”. Anton Kuzyk was born…
Anna Grebinyk wins a doctoral award from the Lower Franconian Memorial Year Foundation and University of Würzburg
The PhD thesis of the DUAG member, Dr. Anna Grebinyk, was distinguished with the joint doctoral award 2022 from the Lower Franconian Memorial Year Foundation and University of Würzburg. The Lower…
Professor Nataliia Kussul (Kyiv) wins the GEO Individual Excellence Award
Deputy Director of the Space Research Institute National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and State Space Agency of Ukraine Professor Nataliia Kussul was awarded the Group of March Observation…
MIT Technology Review names Anastasia Volkova and Olga Dudchenko among “Innovators under 35”
MIT Technology Review “Innovators under 35” acknowledged already two innovators hailed from Ukraine: Dr. Anastasia Volkova (FluroSat, now Regrow, Australia) developed a platform to use remote sensing and other…
DUAG President Prof. Olga Garaschuk elected Vice-President of the German Physiological Society
Prof. Olga Garaschuk has been elected Vice-President of the German Physiological Society (Deutsche Physiologische Gesellschaft, DPG). Prof. Olga Garaschuk investigates the mechanisms underlying the function of neuronal networks…