Team
From Cambridge University Ukrainian Society
Our Committee was re-elected on the 12th of June 2009.
We, as a Committee, do our best to make the Ukrainian Society vibrant, friendly and productive.
We are people from various backgrounds, with different visions, but we all share the same goal – contributing to the welfare of Ukraine and our people, sharing the extraordinary culture of Ukrainians and building bridges among people and communities around the globe.
The Team coordinates Society's everyday activities and represents the Society on all official occasions. Here are the people who devote their time and passion to make our goal come true.
Contents |
President
President – Lyudmyla Bashynska, lb360 (at) cam.ac.uk
Lyudmyla Bashynska is currently doing her PhD in Mediaeval History at Clare College, studying the social networks of gentry women in fifteenth-century England. When she is not studying, Lyudmyla has a number of interests and these range from making perfumes and collecting vintage brooches to watching classic English detective series' and eating dark chocolate. In addition to her presidency of CUUS she is also a peer-supporter for the university and mother to her small daughter. With prior experience of society leadership at Oxford University Lyuda is working hard to promote CUUS within the university during her presidency. She acts as a motivating force for organising Ukrainian cultural events in Cambridge whilst coordinating and directing the actions of the whole committee.
Vice President
Vice President - Anton Symkovych, as525(at)cam.ac.uk
Our Vice President comes from the sunny region of Transcarpathia in Ukraine. Anton is the only member of the Society who has experience оf both the Ukrainian and English prisons. He justifies this by research purposes – but who really knows… When not in prison, Anton tends to embark on around-the-globe voyages or row for all clubs in the vicinity of Cambridge. When time permits, he writes a PhD thesis about power relations in prison. Our Vice President is also a member of CU Hispanic Society Committee.
Anton’s role is to help Lyuda in her uneasy role of the President, as well as to carry the burden of a leadership when the President is away or unavailable. Our Vice President also deals with the legal and PR issues of the Society, as well as extends cooperation with other Ukrainian and student organisations in Cambridge and far beyond.
Assistant to Vice President
Assistant to Vice President - Vsevolod Samokhvalov, vs314(at)cam.ac.uk
Vsevolod is doing research in International Relations in Cambridge. He took his first degree from the University of Odessa, marvelous city in the south of Ukraine. Later on, Vsevolod spent many years working in the Balkans and the Black Sea region as a BBC correspondent in the region. He arrived to Cambridge in October 2008 and immediately joined CUUS. Vsevolod’s main hobbies are writing, hiking, dreaming and some tennis.
Secretary and Junior Treasurer
Secretary – Olga Tkachenko, ot222(at)cam.ac.uk
Olga is a second year NatSci studying biochemistry together with theoretical and organic chemistry. In the spare moments of her hectic schedule she plays badminton for her college (St. Catharine's) and enjoys learning Spanish and Lithuanian. Her role in the Society includes writing announcements, taking minutes at the committee meetings and managing the members' list.
Secretary
Secretary – Olesya Kryshevych, ok226(at)cam.ac.uk
Olesya was born in the ancient town of Malyn, where now the special paper for the Ukrainian currency and passports is produced. Our Secretary is very active and we have to share her with two other Cambridge societies. As a secretary, Olesya deals with the announcement list, takes notes of the team's meetings and contributes in many other ways.
Social Secretary
Social Officer – Olena Fimyar, ohf21(at)cam.ac.uk
Olena came to Cambridge in 2004 to do her MPhil in Politics, Democracy and Education. At the moment she is completing her PhD in Education, working on Foucauldian policy analysis and issues of transforming secondary education in Ukraine. She is proud to come from Tsyurupynsk, a glorious Cossack-legacy town in Kherson region. She made a sacrificial decision to become our internal opposition to keep us focused and critical. Olena brings a unique spirit into our organisation with her joy, as well as outstanding management skills (she made our President do dishes for 3 hours back in 2005). For the last two years Olena was an acting CUUS President.
Olena's tasks are versatile. Generally, Social Officer's job is to communicate people's interests to the rest of the Team and organise our activities accordingly.
Social Secretary
Social Officer – Natalia Vibla, nv239(at)cam.ac.uk
Natalia was born and brought up in Lviv and graduated from Lviv University where she did her degree in International Relations. For several years now Natalia has been working in the area of International Development, an activity that she truly enjoys. In Cambridge she is a PhD student in Criminology trying to decipher the logic behind judges’ sentencing decisions. Natalia enjoys juggling between various social sciences, as well as doing some outdoor sports, travelling, and daydreaming. Her role as a social officer includes organising exciting and fun events.
Fund-raising Officer
Fund-raising Officer - Kseniya Tyshkevych, kasiano2001(at)yahoo.com
Born in the marvelous Crimean peninsula in the South of Ukraine, she has been always interested in discovering ancient cultures, learning foreign languages, traveling and tasting various cuisines. Not accidentally, Kseniya obtained her first degree in the Modern Greek Language from the School of Foreign Languages (University of Simferopol). She did her MA in Applied Linguistics in Athens, worked as a teacher of Modern Greek and translated into Greek a series of books. She also adores French culture and German cuisine. She likes teaching, translating and dancing.
Lecture Officer
Lecture Officer – Oksana Trushkevych, ot213(at)cam.ac.uk
Oksana is originally from Lviv, where she studied Physics and did less scientific studenty things. She came to Cambridge to do a PhD in 2001 and has been a Secretary of the Society until 2005. As any Ukrainian girl, Oksana loves to (ballroom) dance and sing (in the choir). And as any brave Ukrainian she loves skiing and hiking (be it Karpaty, Pyrenees, Alps or Himalaya), Everest Base Camp and Island Peak (6180m) in Nepal were her favourites. Currently she is a Research Associate in the Centre for Avanced Photonics and Electronics, (Engineering Department) and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College.
Senior Treasurer
Senior Treasurer – Kostya Trachenko, kot(at)esc.cam.ac.uk
Kostya Trachenko is a founding member of the Society. His area of research is theoretical and computational condensed matter physics. More information about Kostya, including the weight of the Sailfish he recently caught in Kenya, can be found at his homepage, http://rock.esc.cam.ac.uk/~kot
Most of his work for the Society goes into bringing back the Junior Treasurer from the uknown to see and approve the financial statetements. He will also write you a cheque if you have done something useful and are generally nice.
Family Officer
Family Officer - Dr. Zoryana Oliynyk, Zoryana.Oliynyk(at)domantis.com
Zoryana did her PhD with Professor Sir Alan Fersht in Centre for Protein Engineering, MRC (1999-2003) in the field of Directed Protein Evolution. She then worked at the LMB with Dr Phil Holliger (Directed Evolution of Polymerases) 2004-2005, and followed by Domantis (now GSK) until present in the field of Antibody Engineering. Together with Kostya Trachenko and Markiyan Oliynyk she founded the CU Ukraininan Society in 2001, and was President of the Society in 2001-2004. Her interests include (but are not limited to) travelling, hiking, languages, and Waldorf (Steiner) education. Zoryana's task is to assist our social secretarys in the organisation of events for families.
Computer Officer
Computer Officer – Markiyan Samborskyy, ms587 .at.mole.bio. cam.ac.uk
Markiyan Samborskyy has recently finished his PhD in Bioinformatics at the Department of Biochemistry, where he was studying erythromycin biosynthesis regulation and sequencing genomes. Markiyan comes from Ukraine, Lviv.
As a Computer Officer, he has to keep the Society's web site up to date, as well as to document events of the Society in photos and videos.
Former Team members
Mr Sergiy Bukreyev, University of Cambridge
Mr Dmitriy Myelnikov, University of Cambridge
Mr Markyan Szczur, Manchester.
Ms Olga Struk, University of Cambridge
Dr Kryvoruchko, University of Cambridge
Ms Khadidjah Mattar, Cambridge
Dr Markiyan Oliynyk, University of Oxford
Dr Siarhei Maslau, University of Cambridge
Dr Alex Orlov, Stony Brook University, USA
Dr Andriy Nevidomskyy, Rutgers University, USA
Dr Oleg Pikhurko, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Dr Volodya Golovko, New Zeland
Dr Andriy Ivanchenko, Nagoya University of Commerce, Japan.
