UKRAINIAN RESEARCHER'S PROJECT WILL BE HELD AT IG PAS
The Polish Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences in the United States have selected 18 Ukrainian research teams from various scientific disciplines to receive financial support of up to about $200,000 per year in period up to three years. Among the winners is geophysicist Ksenya Bondar, whose project will be carried out at the Department of Magnetism IG PAS.
The goal of the program is to provide outstanding Ukrainian scientists with stable conditions for conducting research that will help rebuild science in Ukraine in the future. The projects that will receive funding cover a wide range of scientific disciplines: astronomy, environmental sciences, mathematics, psychology, materials science and engineering, agriculture, biomedical sciences, physics and chemistry. The 18 winning teams were selected from 174 submissions.
The title of researcher Kseniya Bondar's project, which will be carried out at our Institute, is Quantifying magnetic properties of soils to evaluate sustainable hazards from heavy metal pollution due to military activities in Ukraine, and it aims to elaborate novel strategies for the assessment of military-related soil pollution, based on a combination of magnetic and geochemical methods and represented in geoinformation models of polluted regions.
Dr. Ksenya Bondar is a senior researcher at the Research Laboratory of Theoretical and Applied Geophysics in the Department of Geophysics at Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Her dissertation was on the magnetic susceptibility of soils.
Dr. Bondar, according to the program, will be the main executor of the project in Poland based on the Department of Magnetism IG PAS, while the other four members of the team - employees of Taras Shevchenko National University and the Institute of Geophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine - will carry out research in Ukraine. The project's total budget for three years is 2,550,600 PLN.
The total amount of funding under the program to support Ukrainian scientists is about $8 million USD (33 million PLN). In addition to PAS and the National Academy of Sciences, support is being provided by the Royal Society in the UK, Elsevier Publishing, the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
We Invite you to read the abstract of Dr. Ksenia Bondar's project:
