Vilchynska Kateryna

Education

• 2016 – 2020 – Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Bachelor of Molecular Physics

• 2020 – 2022 – Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Master of Nuclear Physics

Work Experience

• 2021 – 2022 – Medical Physicist, Universal Clinic "Oberig"

• 2022 – 2023 – Medical Physics Technician, Institut Curie, Paris, France

• 2023 – Present – Medical Physicist, Universal Clinic "Oberig"

Internships and Professional Development

• 2021 – 2-month internship, Proton Therapy Center at Institut Curie, Paris, France

• 2023 – Training course for medical physicists: Halcyon Physics, London, UK

• 2024 – Training course for medical physicists: Varian Advanced Techniques Physics IMRT/RapidArc, Zug, Switzerland

• 2024 – Oral presentation, "Nuclear Physics in Transcarpathia" Conference, Uzhhorod

• 2024 – Oral presentation, Annual Scientific Conference of the Institute for Nuclear Research of the NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv

• 2025 – Training course for medical physicists: ESTRO – Physics for Modern Radiotherapy, Lisbon, Portugal

• 2025 – Poster presentation, ESTRO Annual Congress, Vienna, Austria

• 2025 – Oral presentation, International Conference of Young Scientists and Postgraduates (IEP), Uzhhorod – 2nd Degree Diploma

• 2025 – Oral presentation, Annual Scientific Conference of the Institute for Nuclear Research of the NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv

• 2025 – Participation and oral presentation, Trans-European School of High Energy Physics, Stará Lesná, Slovakia

I am fascinated by the development of remote radiation therapy technologies. Over the last decades, we have gone from cobalt devices to accelerators with high precision of delivering the dose to the tumor. In order to be at the same level with the development of technologies, I strive to deeply understand the work of accelerators and detectors - from physical principles to the subtleties of their clinical application.

In my free time, I am engaged in scientific work at the graduate school of the Department of Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics of Taras Shevchenko KNU. I am fortunate to work on a dissertation research topic that is directly related to my clinical practice. This enables me to implement scientific approaches in daily work and improve the quality of patient treatment.

I love physics, mathematics and helping people - and it was medicine that allowed me to combine these three important components for me. There are millions of people living in the world who are facing oncological diseases, and a significant part of them are undergoing radiation therapy. In this area I feel that I can be useful. I am sure that my knowledge, skills and motivation can play a significant role in the treatment of oncological diseases - and this is what inspires me every day to work in medicine.