Background
Yuliia Pavlivna Petrenko, born in 1994. She received her primary education at the Romny school ?2 named after A.F. Joffe, Ukraine. In 2012, following the call of her heart, she entered the Faculty of Chemistry of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, at the educational level of Bachelor, and later - Master. In 2018, she graduated with honors and obtained the professional qualification "Master: Chemist. Junior Research Fellow. Teacher of a higher educational institution". At 2018 - 2022 she was a PhD student of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. During her studies, the applicant completed an internship, and later worked as a chemist in the organic synthesis laboratory of Ukrorgsyntez Ltd, where she gained significant experience in the field of applied organic synthesis.
With the start of Russian war, from beginning of 2022 to the present, she is a researcher at the Institute of Molecular Sciences in the University of Valencia. In the 2023 Yuliia obtained Maria Skladovska-Curie grant in order to study more deeply the area of her research in the field of application of iron(II) complexes in spin-crossover materials, in the group of prof. Eugenio Coronado.
