L’ORÉAL honored the winners among Ukrainian female scientists®
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At the award ceremony, which took place on December 7, L’Oréal Ukraine announced the names of three laureates, the winners of the fifth season of the Ukrainian L’Oréal-UNESCO Award “For Women in Science”.
The Ukrainian award has been implemented by L’Oréal Ukraine since 2018 and is part of the global L’Oréal-UNESCO program “For Women in Science”.
The purpose of the award is to support and celebrate talented women scientists, to encourage young women to choose scientific professions and to help them in their careers. Since the award was established in Ukraine, 12 women scientists have already been honored, one of whom became a laureate of the international award.
In this extremely difficult time for our country, the award “For women in science” takes on a special significance and becomes even more relevant because of that.
“Today, science, like our entire country, is going through extremely difficult times. A significant number of institutes, research centers and laboratories on the territory of Ukraine were destroyed.
Because of the Russian invasion, many scientists were forced to leave their homes and their native country and go abroad in order to have the opportunity to do science. That is why the restoration of the award this year is of particular importance.
We want to support our female scientists, give them the opportunity to realize their scientific talents. They need recognition from all of us in their native Ukraine for the future development and restoration of our country.
After all, Ukraine needs science, and science needs women!” – says Kateryna Zakharash, Director of Corporate Communications at L’Oréal Ukraine.
This year, the organizing committee of the Award received more than 100 applications from female scientists representing different cities of Ukraine and different fields of science.
The largest number of applications were received from the cities of millions: Kyiv, Lviv and Kharkiv, and chemistry became the most popular field, followed by medicine and biology.
Each application was evaluated by an independent jury, which includes leading scientists and scientists of Ukraine — academics who are recognized specialists in STEM fields.
Jury members selected ten finalists to participate in interviews in October 2023. Based on the results of the interviews, three winners were selected. Each laureate will receive a monetary award in the amount of 300,000 hryvnias for the implementation of her scientific activity. They became:
Khrystyna Hnatenko
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Theoretical Physics named after Professor Ivan Vakarchuk of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Olga Larina
Candidate of Chemical Sciences, senior researcher at the L.V. Pyzarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Natalia Stasiuk
Candidate of chemical sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Cell Biology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
In addition to the fact that three laureates were selected among the ten finalists, this year, according to the jury’s decision, six more young scientists were recognized for outstanding achievements in their scientific careers. They became:
Kateryna Gubenko
Candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, research associate of the Institute of Scintillation Materials of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Natalia Korol
Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Organic Chemistry of the Uzhhorod National University
Olesya Kucheriv
Doctor of Philosophy in “Chemistry”, junior researcher at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University
Olga Lisakovska
Candidate of biological sciences, senior researcher at the O. V. Palladin Institute of Biochemistry
Yana Nosova
Associate Professor of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Candidate of Technical Sciences of the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics
Anastasia Rabokon
Candidate of biological sciences, research associate of the State Institution “Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”
About the Award
The L’Oréal Foundation launched the “For Women in Science” program in 1998 in partnership with UNESCO. The purpose of the Award is to recognize and support talented women scientists and encourage young women to choose scientific professions.
This year, the L’Oréal-UNESCO Prize for Women in Science celebrates its 25th anniversary. The prize is awarded in 117 countries of the world. Since the program’s inception, more than 4,100 talented young women scientists, including post-graduate students, candidates and doctors of science, have gained recognition, and seven of them have received the Nobel Prize.
To participate in the competition for the Prize, women must have a scientific degree, have publications in journals indexed in the international scientometric databases Scopus and/or Web of Science, and be socially active in order to popularize science.
The Ukrainian award was introduced with the support of L’Oréal Ukraine in 2018 and is part of the global program. The award is implemented under the patronage of the National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO.
Partners — National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Center “Development of Corporate Social Responsibility” and “Girls STEM” initiative.
The world needs science, and science needs women!
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