Ph.D.
The prospect of reorienting several chemical industries based on oil or natural gas to use substrates obtained through the processing of non-food biomass is one of the priority areas of basic research worldwide. Therefore, developing highly active catalysts for cost-effective and environmentally acceptable processes based on renewable raw materials is critical in realizing the green chemistry concept. Currently, my research work is related to the development of polyfunctional catalysts for the actual conversion of C2,4-bioalcohols, in particular, ethanol, 1-butanol, and isobutanol, into commercially important alkenes, dienes, and higher alcohols. The conversion of bioalcohols using the developed high-performance and selective catalysts is a prerequisite for the establishment of production in Ukraine of industrially important monomers of synthetic polymers, plastics, and motor fuel components from renewable raw materials, which is extremely important for reducing the dependence on domestic industry on oil imports and for the post-war recovery of Ukraine.
Olga's scientific achievements include several publications (more than 40) in professional journals with a high impact factor (max. 11.307), indexed in the international scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science, in particular, Carbon, ChemCatChem, Catalysis Communications, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Applied Catalysis A: General, and are cited about 100 times annually.
Olga is a Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Catalytic Redox Processes of the L. V. Pisarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry. Her research interests are related to catalysis as a component of physical chemistry, green chemistry, production catalysis from renewable raw materials (bioalcohols), and using CO2 (greenhouse gas) to obtain valuable chemical compounds.
From 2012 to 2015, Olga was a postgraduate student at the L. V. Pisarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry. From 2013 to 2017 — Engineer of the first category at the L. V. Pisarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry. Since 2017, Olga has been a PhD in Chemical Sciences, specializing in chemical kinetics and catalysis. Since 2017, she has also worked as a junior researcher at the L. V. Pisarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, since 2018 — as a researcher, and since 2021 — as a senior researcher at the same institute. In 2025, she received the Academic Title of Senior Researcher.
In addition, Olga won the Ukrainian L'ORÉAL-UNESCO Prize for Women in Science in 2023, the President of Ukraine Prize in 2022, and the Verkhovna Rada Prize for Young Scientists in 2019.
Olga also received scholarships: The President of Ukraine in 2018, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2021, the Scholarship named after Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine B.E. Paton for young scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2024, the L.V. Pysarzhevsky Scholarship for Young Scientists and Specialists of the L. V. Pisarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry in 2022, and the NAS of Ukraine award "Talent. Inspiration. Work" in 2021. Since 2017, Olga has also been a member of the Organizing Committee of the II Symposium' Modern Problems of Nanocatalysis', since 2018 — a reviewer at the invitation of the journals of Elsevier, American Chemical Society, Springer, Royal Society of Chemistry, Wiley-VCH, Bentham Science. Since 2019 — Scientific Secretary of the Department of Catalytic Redox Processes, L. V. Pisarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry. In 2020, she became an expert in the "Zavtra.UA" scholarship program, Secretary of the Council of Young Scientists and Specialists of the L. V. Pisarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, and a member of the Council of Young Scientists of the Department of Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 2023, she also became a member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference "Modern Problems of Catalysis", and since 2024, she has been a member of the Jury of the Scientific Young Award for Innovators (SYAI).
2024 - Ukrainian expert of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for conducting scientific and scientific-technical expertise in the scientific direction "Chemistry, chemical technologies, and pharmacy"; 2025 - a member of the jury of the III stage of the All-Ukrainian competition for the defense of scientific research works of students-members of the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the 2024/2025 academic year (the Department of Chemistry and Biology).
Olga V. Larina, Oksana V. Zikrata, Nataliya D. Shcherban, Pavlo S. Yaremov, Arpad M. Rostas, Ivan Khalakhan, Kateřina Veltruská, Gregor Mali, Sergiy O. Soloviev, Svitlana M. Orlyk, Carbon, 2024, 119272
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Olga V. Larina, Nataliya D. Shcherban, Pavlo I. Kyriienko, Ivan M. Remezovskyi, Pavlo S. Yaremov, Ivan Khalakhan, Gregor Mali, Sergiy, O. Soloviev, Svitlana M. Orlyk, Stanislaw Dzwigaj, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2020, 16600–16611
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Olga V. Larina, Karina V. Valihura, Pavlo I. Kyriienko, Nina V. Vlasenko, Dmytro Yu. Balakin, Ivan Khalakhan, Tomaž Čendak, Sergiy O. Soloviev, Svitlana M. Orlyk, Applied Catalysis A, General, 2019, 117265
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