Journal Article

HOW THREE UKRAINIAN SCIENTISTS ARE PERSEVERING THROUGH RUSSIA'S BRUTAL WAR

Gaind, Nisha

2022

Overview

On 25 February, the 35-year-old plasma physicist raced out of Kyiv to her home village 80 kilometres away, hoping to escape the coming attacks on Ukraine's capital city. Among them are the country's estimated 95,000 researchers. [...]they were part of a modernizing scientific system that was beginning to throw off its Soviet-era shackles and integrate more closely with European research. Six months ago, there was a lot of interest in Ukraine and young people were heading up research departments, says George Gamota, a Ukrainian-born US physicist who left in 1944 and helped Ukraine to develop its scientific system after it gained independence in 1991. Scientists worldwide have stepped up to help their colleagues through grassroots efforts such as #ScienceForUkraine, which has collated thousands ofjob offers at labs worldwide for Ukrainian researchers in need. [...]in many cases, research and university teaching is continuing where possible at Ukrainian institutions, led by scientists who have remained at home or by refugee researchers who continue their work from overseas.

• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
• Subject: Fund raising / Genomics / Grass roots movement / Medical research / Modernization / Physicists / Refugees / Researchers / Scientists / Students / Young adults