Helping, healing and fighting: researchers have become refugees, soldiers and activists in the face of a horrifying conflict.
Among them are. Until now, they were part of a modernizing scientific system that was beginning to throw off its Soviet-era shackles and integrate more closely with European research. Six months ago, there was a lot of interest in Ukraine and young people were heading up research departments, says George Gamota, a Ukrainian-born US physicist who left in 1944 and helped Ukraine to develop its scientific system after it gained independence in 1991.
Leaving their village, where her family had spent most of their lives, was difficult — emotionally and logistically. “We didn’t have a plan,” she says. “It’s an unusual feeling, when you don’t know where to go or what to do. Usually you have control of your life, but in war, you lose control of your life no matter what you do.”
But there are challenges ahead — Prysiazhna is still trying to sort out her visa and work documents before she can settle in earnest, and the future is deeply uncertain. She follows news about Ukraine daily and hopes to return, but doesn’t know whether she’ll still have a home if she does. Pokrytiuk won’t be the only Ukrainian in the lab. Oleksyk was born in the country and left in 1992 to finish graduate school in the United States. A genomics researcher, he has since the early 2010s spearheaded an effort to chart the genome diversity of Russia and Ukraine, which he calls a “desert” in population genetics.
Despite the horrors of the war, Oleksyk can see a sliver of hope for research. “Maybe this is a great opportunity to shake off that Soviet baggage and move on,” he says. When the war is over, Ukraine can finally integrate into the international community and “we can do the great things, including science”, says Oleksyk. “I know Ukraine is going to win this. I know Ukrainian people, they’re stubborn as hell.”Valerii Pokrytiuk, bionformatician, an enlisted medic in the Ukrainian army.
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