Ph.D., Associate professor
Olena is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cordoba (Spain). She works on the SusPharma project and is interested in the problems of recycling waste into marketable products, including for the pharmaceutical industry.
Catalysis in biomass processing. Creation of nanoscale oxides that can be used as catalysts, pigments, and solar cell elements. Including the use of industrial waste as a raw material.
From 1984 to 1987, she worked as an engineer in the department of technological calculations and reporting at the Sievierodonetsk Reinforced Concrete Plant, from 1988 to 1995 as a researcher conducting experimental research on catalysts and exhaust gas utilization at the Department of Basic Organic and Inorganic Synthesis at the Rubizhne Branch of the Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology-Dnepropetrovsk. From 1995 to 2024, she was an assistant, senior lecturer, associate professor of the following courses: “Chemistry”, ‘Fundamentals of Chemical Technology’ at the Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University.
Also, since 2022, she has been a postdoctoral researcher conducting organic synthesis catalyst research at the Faculty of Sciences, Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Cordoba. She is also a postdoc researcher in the period 2023-2025.
In 2017-2018, she was a reviewer for the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering; in 2020-2021, she was a reviewer for the Journal of Chemistry, Technology and Application of Substances.
SUSPHARMA aims to develop environmentally friendly methods of producing medicines and raw materials from plant residues. Through the development of effective heterogeneous catalysts and processes, it is planned to create a number of continuous environmental technologies.
Role: Postdoc researcher
HEI4S3-RM is implemented as part of the EIT (European Institute of Innovation & Technology) HEI (Higher Education Institutions) Initiative, which is the main goal of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) as part of its new strategy, the EIT strategic innovation plan for 2021 -2027. It will accelerate innovation and commercialization with the involvement and cooperation of a large number of internal/external stakeholders (academic and non-academic staff as well as students) in the regions of higher education institutions (HEIs).
Role: Participant of webinars
Korchuganova, O.; Liubymova-Zinchenko, O.; Afonina, I.; Kalenyk, V.; Balu, A. M. In Data-Centric Business and Applications; Semenov, A., Yepifanova, I., Kajanová, J., Eds.; Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies; Springer Nature Switzerland: Cham, 2025; Vol. 240, pp 209–219.
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