Recently, information appeared on the Internet that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had created the position of advisor on gender issues and that Oksana Volodymyrivna Grygorieva had been appointed to it.
The General Staff noted that gender equality is part of Ukraine's National Security Strategy and one of the goals of sustainable development. In addition, the implementation of gender policy is one of the conditions for Ukraine's accession to the European Union and NATO.
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Oksana has a degree in solid state physics. She graduated from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv with a degree in theoretical physics, which was headed by the renowned scientist Professor Ivan Oleksandrovych Vakarchuk, rector, and later (since 2007) Minister of Higher Education and Science of Ukraine.
Oksana is a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, studied in graduate school at the Department of Metal Physics at KPI (today – the Department of Physical Materials Science and Heat Treatment at the E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute), and was a scholarship holder of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
The scientific supervisor of Oksana's dissertation was the scientific supervisor of our department, now Professor Serhii Sydorenko.
On a voluntary basis, Oksana worked as President of the Youth Center of the Atlantic Council of Ukraine (its chairman at that time was Doctor of Military Sciences, General Vadym Oleksandrovych Grechaninov).
The department has photos of her meetings with NATO Secretary General George Robertson and Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.
After completing her postgraduate studies at KPI and defending her dissertation, Oksana worked in the apparatus of the Main Department of Science of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine, as dean and vice-rector at the International University of Human Development “Ukraine.”
So, ahead of our graduate lies responsible state activity in the Armed Forces of Ukraine: achieving new conditions for women during their participation in the Armed Forces, in the struggle for the freedom and sovereignty of Ukraine.
Good luck to you, Oksana, on this path!
And for us, today's students and teachers of the department, it is gratifying to realize that such specialists — materials scientists, young scientists capable of being active not only in science but also in the social dimension of the country — are being trained by the educational programs of the Department of Physical Materials Science and Heat Treatment!
In the 2025 admission campaign, the department is accepting applicants for the bachelor's degree program in the interdisciplinary educational program “Engineering of New Materials Based on Artificial Intelligence Software,” the bachelor's program “Materials Science,” and the master's program “Engineering and Computer-Aided Design of Materials.”
Therefore, using the example of Oksana Grygorieva, we can rightfully say, “Know our people!” and invite this year's female applicants to join us.