Organizers
Our team
Organizers of the program are scientists from different countries and fields of research. We have teamed up for one goal — helping as many young and up-and-coming scientists as possible.
We are grateful to the photographer Alex Tselmin for taking our photos
Evgeniya Vorobyeva
Program coordination
💼 Technology Lead in a startup in the green hydrogen energy sector (Lausanne, Switzerland); Postdoc at ETH (Zürich, Switzerland) in Electrochemistry (2020-2022)
🎓 MSc in Physical Chemistry, MSU (Moscow, Russia); PhD in Chemical Engineering, ETH (Zürich, Switzerland)
🧪 Catalysis, porous materials, electrochemistry, and electrocatalysis
Mariia Kuzina
Content creation and management
💼 PhD student at KIT (Karlsruhe, Germany) MSc in Materials Sciences
🎓 BSc, MSc at MSU (Moscow, Russia)
🧪 Surface chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials science, and 3D printing
Julia Kolodiazhnaia
Operational support, design
💼 PhD student at Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark)
🎓 MSc, Organic Chemistry, Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark); BSc, Material Sciences, MSU (Moscow, Russia)
🧪 Organometallic chemistry, transition metal catalysis, electrochemistry
Ilya Flyamer
Communication with mentors
💼 Postdoctoral researcher at FMI (Basel, Switzerland)
🎓 PhD, the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Diploma in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, MSU (Moscow, Russia)
🧪 Spatial organization of the genome, gene expression regulation
Valentin Slepukhin
Operations lead
💼 Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany)
🎓 PhD in Physics, UCLA (Los Angeles, USA); MSc in Physics, MIPT (Moscow, Russia)
🧪 Soft matter physics, computational neuroscience, microbial evolution
Maria Vasina
Coaching, coordination of educational content
💼 Project manager at MISIS (Moscow, Russia); certified coach (ACTP, ICF).
🎓 PhD in Metallurgy, MSc in Metallurgy, MISIS (Moscow, Russia); Diploma in Material Science, Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Moscow, Russia)
🧪 Development of new aluminum alloys
Svetlana Tymchenko
Communication with mentees
💼 Associate professor at Medical Academy (Simferopol). Researcher at the laboratory of medical ecological monitoring. Scientific advisor of university’s student scientific association M.D. in Neurology, Lviv National Medical University (Lviv, Ukraine)
🎓 Diploma in Neurology, Crimea State Medical University (Simferopol, Ukraine)
🧪 Neuroscience, human physiology of visceral systems, ecological physiology, and medicine
Olya Vvedenskaya
Marketing and community management
💼 Science Communication Officer in Lipotype (Dresden, Germany), co-founder of Dragonfly Mental Health (USA) and Warenje scientific community building (Spain & Germany)
🎓 Doctor-biophysicist at Pirogov Medical University (Moscow, Russia), PhD at the Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany)
🧪 Mental health in academia, mass spectrometry in medical research
Ksenia Kuznetsova
Marketing and content
💼 Scientific coordinator for Epigenetics, Munich, Germany
🎓 Bachelors in Tallinn Technical University, Estonia; Masters in University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France; PhD MPI-CBG, Dresden, Germany.
🧪 Transcription in (nuclear) space and time, developmental biology, sci-comm
George Mathew
Marketing illustration
💼 PhD at Institute of Nanotechnology, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
🎓 Bachelor and Masters at St. Thomas College Pala, Kerala, India
🧪 3D Printing, Magnetic materials, Scientific Illustrations, Graphic Designing
Ivan Smirnov
Technical support
💼 Assistant Professor at University of Mannheim (Mannheim, Germany)
🎓 PhD, Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia); MSc in Life Science, Université Paris Cité (Paris, France); Diploma in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
🧪 Computational social science, AI, NLP. gender equality, education
Olga Sanina
Technical support
💼 PhD student at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany)
🎓 MSc in Computer Science and Computer Engineering; BSc in Information Security, NSTU (Novosibirsk, Russia)
🧪 Real-world protocols, privacy and trust in user-based protocols, quantitative linguistics in cryptography