Oleksandra Kliuieva is a Ukrainian guest researcher at the Chair of Internal Combustion Engines and Drive Systems at the “Friedrich List” Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences. She is working on topics relating to alternative fuels, so-called “e-fuels”, and is researching the use of a three-way catalytic converter for use in vehicles with methanol as a fuel. She would also like to do a doctorate in this field at the faculty.

Kliuieva initially received a one-year grant from the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU). Since last year, she has been a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Oleksandra Kliuieva is from Kherson in Ukraine and had to escape as a result of the Russian attacs. She initially worked in Slovakia at the Technical University of Košice, as she had recently been a scholarship holder of the Slovakian National Scholarship Program. It was here that she found out about a scholarship offered by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) and, after being accepted for a one-year scholarship, came to Dresden, where she now lives and conducts research at the Chair of Combustion Engineering and Drive Technology. She tells us that she was a PhD student in her home country and researched the use of heat spokes in cars and how this could reduce emissions during cold engine starts.

When she arrived in Germany, Kliuieva learned German so that she could find her way around her new environment faster and better, she tells us. Here she also received support from her friends and colleagues. She decided to do her doctoral studies in Dresden and applied for a one-year scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). On June 2024, she received confirmation that the scholarship would be extended for a further year.

We congratulate Oleksandra Kliuieva on her approved scholarship extension and wish her continued strength and all the best for the future.