Research Group of Prof. Dr. Kateryna Pozharska

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Short CV

  • 2026 – now Professor at INS (Bonn Junior Fellow), University of Bonn.
  • 2022 – 2026 Postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Mathematics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany (group of Prof. Dr. Tino Ullrich): PSI Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, DFG.
  • 2020 – 2022 Senior lecturer, Faculty of Information Technology and Mathematics, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Lutsk, Ukraine.
  • 2019 – 2020 Invited researcher (5 months), Faculty of Mathematics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany (group of Prof. Dr. Tino Ullrich).
  • 2018 – now Research fellow, Theory of Functions Department, Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv.
  • 2019 PhD, Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv (supervisor - Prof. Dr. Anatolii Romanyuk)

Plenary talks

  • 2026 Conference “Foundations of Computational Mathematics” (FoCM2026), Vienna, Austria (semi-plenary speaker at the Information-Based Complexity Workshop).

  • 2026 17th International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing (MCQMC2026), University of Edinburgh, Scotland (plenary speaker).

  • 2026 International Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine (ICMU) Winter School “Constructive Approximation and its Applications”, Yablunytsya village, Ivano-Frankivsk Region, Ukraine (lecturer).

  • 2025 Workshop on Approximation Theory and Fast Algorithms dedicated to the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Prestin and 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Winfried Sickel, Hasenwinkel, Germany (plenary speaker).

  • 2024 6th Workshop on Sparse Grids and Applications, Bonn, Germany (plenary speaker).

Selected and invited talks

  • 2025 15th International Conference on Monte Carlo Methods and Applications (MCM2025), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA (invited by Prof. Dr. Stefan Heinrich, Dr. Larisa Yaroslavtseva and Prof. Dr. Thomas Müller-Gronbach to the Special Session “Stochastic Computation and Complexity”).

  • 2025 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. (invited by Prof. Dr. Jochen Garcke and Dr. Guannan Zhang for the Minisymposium “Sparse Grids and Applications”).

  • 2024 16th International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing (MCQMC2024), University of Waterloo, Canada (invited by Prof. Dr. Stefan Heinrich, Dr. Larisa Yaroslavtseva and Prof. Dr. Thomas Müller-Gronbach to the Special Session “Stochastic Computation and Complexity”).

  • 2023 Workshop “From Modeling and Analysis to Approximation and Fast Algorithms” within the VolkswagenStiftung project “From Modeling and Analysis to Approximation”, Hasenwinkel, Germany (invited by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Prestin).

  • 2023 Dagstuhl-Seminar 23351 “Algorithms and Complexity for Continuous Problems”, Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Germany (invited by Prof. Raimund Seidel, Prof. Dr. Dmitriy Bilyk, Prof. Dr. Michael Gnewuch, Dr. Jan Vyb´ıral, and Dr. Larisa Yaroslavtseva).

Recognition and achievements

  • Diploma of a participant in the L’Oreal-UNESCO Ukraine Prize “For Women in Science – 2025” for outstanding achievements at the beginning of a scientific career
  • 2025 Grant of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for research groups of young scientists of NAS of Ukraine for research within the priority branches of science and technology development
  • 2024 Award of the Supreme Council of Ukraine for young scientists
  • 2023 The Award “Young scientist-2023” for the best scientific cooperation
  • 2023 The Award of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine “Talent, inspiration, work“
  • 2023 Joseph F. Traub Information-Based Complexity Young Researcher Award
  • 2022 Scholarship of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • 2021 The Award of the President of Ukraine for young scientists
  • 2020 Scholarship of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for young scientists
  • 2020 Grant of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for research groups of young scientists of NAS of Ukraine for research within the priority branches of science and technology development

Short research stays

In the framework of the European Marie Sklodowska Curie Project “Approximation Methods for Molecular Modelling and Diagnosis Tools”(“AMMODIT”, EU H2020 project number 645672):

  • 2018, 2019 (1 + 1.5 months) Institute of Mathematics, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany (host - Prof. Dr. Jürgen Prestin).

  • 2018 (1 month) Austrian Academy of Sciences, Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Linz, Austria (host - Prof. Dr. Sergei Pereverzyev).