| Family name
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Trusova (Ioffe)
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| First name
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Valeriya
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| Date of birth
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9 August 1984
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| Institution
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V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
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| Department
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Department of Nuclear and Medical Physics
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| Correspondence address
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4 Svobody Sq., Kharkiv, 61022, Ukraine
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| Phone
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+380 57 343-82-44
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| E-mail:
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valtrusova@yahoo.com; valerija.trusova@karazin.ua
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Education
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2001-2006: M. Sc. Degree in Biophysics with the highest honours from V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Department of Biological Physics, School of Radiophysics
2005 (July) – pre-graduate training at Helsinki Biophysics and Biomembrane Group, University of Helsinki
2001-2007: M. Sc. Degree in English philology with the highest honours from V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Department of English philology and translation, School of Foreign languages
2006-2008: Post-Graduate course at the Department of Biological and Medical Physics, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, working on PhD thesis “Lysozyme interactions with model lipid membranes”. Supervisor Prof. Gorbenko G.P.
2008: Awarding the PhD degree in Physics & Mathematics, Biophysics from the Scientific Council of V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University
2016: Awarding the Dr. Sci. degree in Physics & Mathematics, Biophysics from the Scientific Council of V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University
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| Professional positions
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2004-2005: Research Assistant, Department of Biological and Medical Physics, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
2006-2008: Junior Researcher, Department of Biological and Medical Physics, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
2008-2009: Researcher, Department of Biological and Medical Physics, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
2009-2016: Senior Researcher, Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear and Medical Physics, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
2016-Present: Leading Researcher, Professor, Department of Nuclear and Medical Physics, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
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| Awards
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2005 (May) – 1st prize in Young Scientist Paper Contest, V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2005 (July) – travel grant from IUPAC to attend the 15th International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics, Moscow, Russia
2006 – travel grant from University of Sofia to attend International Symposium on Organic Chemistry, Sofia, Bulgaria
2007 (July) – travel grant from EBSA to attend the VI European Biophysics Congress, London, UK
2007 (August) – B.I. Verkin Post-graduate Scholarship in Biophysics, Ukraine
2007 (September) – travel grant from Unilever Research to attend 10th Conference on Methods and Applications of Fluorescence, Salzburg, Austria
2007 (October) – B.I. Verkin Post-graduate Scholarship Award in Biophysics, Ukraine
2008 (April) – Ukraine Cabinet Council Scholarship for PhD students
2008 (October) – I.E. Tarapov Fellowship for young researchers in Physics, Ukraine
2009 (April) – 1st prize in Young Scientist Contest in Kharkov Region, Ukraine
2009 (September) – travel grant from ChemoTravel to attend 11th Conference on Methods and Applications of Fluorescence, Budapest, Hungary
2009 (September) – Yu. Sapronov Fellowship for young researchers in Physics, Ukraine
2009 (November) – Short-term Fellowship from Human Frontier Science Program
2011 (May) – Young scientist award from the President of Ukraine
2008-2011 – Research grant from the Science and Technology Center in Ukrain (project 4534)
2016 – 1st prize in the Regional Competition “Higher school of Kharkiv region – the best names”
2016 (May) – Young scientist award from the President of Ukraine
2018-2019 – Young scientist scholarship from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
2018 – Award from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for the most talanted Young Scientists
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| Areas of professional interests and expertise
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Structural biology (membrane biophysics, protein-lipid interactions, protein aggregation on the membrane surface)
Fluorescence spectroscopy (methods, instrumentation, data acquisition and analysis)
Theoretical biophysics and numerical modeling, programming
Molecular dynamics simulations, molecular docking
Design of the fluorescent markers of physico-chemical properties of lipid bilayer membranes, protein aggregates, nucleic acids
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