Dr. Olena Pareniuk

Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

CV: Olena Pareniuk is a senior researcher in the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Associated professor of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine. Her studies radiation microbiology, focusing on the bacterial diversity of radionuclide contaminated soil of Chornobyl and Fukushima exclusion zones, as well as bacterial inhabitants of corium in the destroyed units of both NPPs. She obtained her PhD in 2013 from the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine and spent two years in the postdoc fellowship in Japan, in the Institute of Environmental Radioactivity of Fukushima University. She is a main project researcher of several projects focusing on biodiversity of fuel-containing mat

Presentation title: New Safe Confinement of Chornobyl NPP as an experimental field for biological research