Since middle school, I have been passionate about astronomy, spending countless nights engaged in amateur astrophotography, attending astronomy summits, and observing the night sky through a telescope. This childhood fascination naturally led me to pursue an education in astrophysics at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. However, when choosing a Ph.D. topic, I decided to challenge myself by stepping out of my astrophysical comfort zone and applying to the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics to work on quantum chromodynamics and heavy-ion collisions. After several years of grappling with the complexities of quantum field theory and strongly interacting matter, I finally mastered these topics.

 

After defending my Ph.D. thesis in 2015, I worked as a junior scientific researcher in the Department of High Energy Density Physics at the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyiv.

 

In December 2016, I joined the Center for Astrophysics and Gravitation (CENTRA), COSTAR group, led by Prof. Ilídio Lopes, as a postdoctoral researcher. At CENTRA, I began bridging astrophysics and quantum chromodynamics by focusing on neutron stars.

 

In December 2017, I returned to the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics for two months, but by February 2018, I had started a second postdoctoral position at CENTRA.

 

From 2019 to 2024, I worked as an assistant researcher at the Centre for Physics of the University of Coimbra (CFisUC). In January 2025, I started a new Senior Researcher position at the Southampton Theory Astrophysics and Gravity (STAG) Research Centre at the University of Southampton.