Volha Chukhutsina receives L’Oréal Unesco For Women in Science fellowship

VU biophysicist Volha Chukhutsina received one of the research grants. This gives her the opportunity to spend a few months working on her research at the prestigious Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS-KNAW) in Amsterdam.

Volha Chukhutsina is a biophysicist specializing in optical spectroscopy, photosynthesis and structural biology. Her field of research - photoregulation in photosynthesis due to temperature changes - remains largely unexplored territory, but is essential for researching, for example, climate change. To gain deeper insight into this photoregulation in photosynthesis, innovative, multidisciplinary research is needed. Volha would like to further expand and develop this research using a combined approach in which she studies the phenomena at the level of individual proteins to whole organisms. The For Women in Science fellowship gives Volha the opportunity to shape and further develop her line of research and also to organize an international workshop on temperature adaptation in photosynthesis.