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The funding will support basic science and mathematics research spanning everything from nonlinear differential equations and quantum optics to evolutionary genetics and climate-resilient crops.
As part of its goal of fostering research excellence and international collaboration, the Simons Foundation has selected 11 Centers of Excellence across Ukraine to receive funding for cutting-edge basic science and mathematics programs. The support will help the centers continue their high-impact research and cultivate community and collaboration.
The selected projects, principal investigators and institutions are:
ASTRA.NUMINA — Advanced Science for Theoretical Research with Numerical Modeling in Astrophysics
Peter Berczik, Main Astronomical Observatory, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
Center for Advanced Particle and Space Physics
Liudmyla Kozak, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv
Center for Computational Mathematics of Complex Intelligent Systems
Nataliia Kussul, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute,” Kyiv
Center for Mathematical Sciences: Research Leadership and Training of Early-Career Researchers
Igor Skrypnik, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sloviansk/Cherkasy
The Center of Excellence for Classical and Quantum Complex Systems
Rostyslav Hryniv, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv
Center of Excellence for Digital Materials
Oleksandr Vasiliev, Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
Center of Excellence in Theoretical and Computational Physics
Sergiy Perepelytsya, Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
KOLOS — Computational Biology of Wheat Stress Resistance: Root-System Genomics, Phenotyping and the Rhizosphere Microbiome
Maksym Antonyuk, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv
Simons Union for Mathematics in Ukraine
Alexander Timokha, Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
Ukrainian Center for Quantum Research
Sergiy Shevchenko, Kyiv School of Economics, Kyiv
Ukrainian Center for Theoretical and Computational Evolutionary Genomics
Khrystyna Shchubelka, Uzhhorod National University, Uzhhorod
