Kateryna Shavanova

Kateryna Shavanova is Head of the Expert Council of CURE. She holds a PhD in Biology and has more than 20 years of experience in radiobiology, nuclear and radiation risk. She is a researcher of Chornobyl and a science communicator.

She has led crop research and development projects at Kernel, a leading Ukrainian agricultural company, contributing to food security. She currently applies her expertise in CBRN risk in the security sector. She is co-author of the popular science book "The Terrible, the Beautiful and the Ugly in Chornobyl" (in Ukrainian).