I received my PhD in the topic of “Optics and Laser Physics” at the Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2016. My research concerned the fundamental and applied studies of liquid crystals. The main efforts of my work were focused on the investigation of the optics of liquid crystals, their alignment, chirality transfer, colloids assembling and manipulation within liquid crystal matrix. I also participated in the European scientific project on optofluidics (COST Action MP 1205). In the frame of this project, I worked during 2014-2015 at the University of Calabria, Italy among the team of Prof. G. Cipparrone. My research was focused on the assembling and manipulation of nanoparticles. I invented an effective method to assemble fluorescent nanoparticles in liquid crystals by induced topological defects and was able to control their position by low-power light irradiation and AC/DC electric field application.

From 2017, I worked at Bilkent University as a postdoctoral research fellow in a Soft Matter team lead by Dr. Agnese Callegari. My  research concerned optical assembling and manipulation of colloids. The main purpose of this study was structuring and separation of microparticles in a predefined manner. It allowed me to control the behavior and trajectory of a single particle as well as colony of particles, resulting in a formation of desirable crystalline structures including a possibility of localization of spatial defects within it.

In September 2020 I joined the FluidFrame Lab directed by Prof. Luca Biancofiore as postdoctoral researcher in order to work on finding a way to manipulate and assemble the active non-spherical Janus particles.