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Olena Kuzymchuk | Textile Technologies and Medical Textiles | Philip Schwartz Scholarship | TU Dresden

Textile Technologies and Medical Textiles | Philip Schwartz Scholarship | TU Dresden

Published on August 28, 2026

About this Episode

Olena Kuzymchuk is a professor in the field of textile technologies, specializing in knitwear production and medical textiles. Until 2022, she worked at Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, where she headed the Office of International Cooperation. After the full-scale invasion began, she received the Philip Schwartz Scholarship (Humboldt Foundation) and relocated to the Technical University of Dresden.

🔑 Key topics:
✅ Opportunities for research abroad
✅ Collaboration with Ukrainian colleagues during the war
✅ How the war has enhanced the international mobility of Ukrainian scientists
✅ Participation in the Erasmus+ program
✅ Development of 3D technologies for textile education in Ukraine
✅ Plans to return to Ukraine

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Textile Technologies and Medical Textiles | Philip Schwartz Scholarship | TU Dresden
Textile Technologies and Medical Textiles | Philip Schwartz Scholarship | TU Dresden
Olena Kuzymchuk