The names of the three winners of the TOP-10 winners of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Prize for Women in Science in 2020 have been announced today. One of them was Tetiana Tatarchuk, associate professor of the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.
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Olga Kopach (Bogomolets Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and Maryna Nesterenko (Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) were also invited to the top three winners of the Prize.
It will be recalled that Tetyana Tatarchuk has a Hirsch index of 20, more than 1,100 citations and more than 50 scientific publications (according to the Scopus scientometric database). Our scientist heads the Training and Research Center of Chemical Materials Science and Nanotechnology. In 2020-2021, Tetyana Tatarchuk was given the opportunity to implement a bilateral Ukrainian-Polish research project “Photocatalytic hybrid systems for water purification” together with scientists from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Republic of Poland).
It is worth noting that in 2018 the Ukrainian Award was introduced, which is part of the global L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Program “For Women in Science”. Since 1998, the L’Oréal Foundation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have been working to support and recognize talented women scientists and to encourage young women to choose scientific careers and help them in their careers.