Oleksandra Varankina, Assoc. Prof.

Education:

•  National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” (NTU “KhPI”), Faculty of Organic Substances Technology, specialty “Chemical Technology and Engineering”, qualification “Bachelor of Chemical Technology and Engineering”.
• NTU “KhPI”, Faculty of Organic Substances Technology, specialty “Industrial Biotechnology”, qualification ” Engineer-Biotechnologist”.
• Interdisciplinary Institute of Postgraduate Education at NTU “KhPI”, specialty “Intellectual Property”, qualification “Intellectual Property Specialist”.
• NTU “KhPI”, postgraduate study in the specialty of “Biotechnology”.

Professional achievements and skills:

•  Language skills: Ukrainian and Russian – fluent; English – B2.
•  Experience in writing and translating scientific articles, theses.
•  Author and co-author of more than 100 educational, scientific and methodological works.
•  Experience in compiling educational documentation.
•  Member of the Public Organization “Kharkiv Regional Biotechnology Society”.
•  2011 – obtaining the scientific degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences after defending a dissertation on the topic “Improvement of the technology of functional yogurts using beta-carotene of microbiological origin” in the specialty “Food Technology” at the Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies.
•  2014 – obtaining the title of Associate Professor of the Department of Biotechnology and Analytical Chemistry of NTU “KhPI”.
•  2019, 2023 – advanced training at the State Institution “I.I. Mechnikov Institute of Microbiology and Immunology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine”.
•  Deputy Head of the Department for Educational, Scientific and Methodological Work.
•  Guarantor of the Bachelor’s Educational Program “Biotechnology and Bioengineering”, member of the working group of the Master’s Educational Program “Biotechnology and Bioengineering”.
•  Responsible for R&D on the topic “Integrated Research and Optimization of Industrial and Pharmaceutical Biotechnologies”.
•  Work as part of the jury of the 1st round of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in Biotechnology.
•  Management of students-prize winners of the All-Ukrainian Competition of Student Scientific Papers.
•  Curator of student groups.
•  Head of the permanent student problem group: “Modern Directions of Development and Improvement of Industrial Biotechnologies”.
•  Head of the student scientific group “Fundamentals of Industrial Biotechnology”.

Disciplines:

•  General biotechnology.
•  Industrial biotechnology.
• Basics of biochemical engineering.
•  Basics of intellectual property in biotechnology.
• Plant cell biotechnology.
•  Animal cell biotechnology.
• Theoretical foundations of biotechnology.
•  Fundamentals of bioengineering.
•  Modern experimental methods of biotechnology and bioengineering.

Scientific interests:

•  Food biotechnology.
• Biotechnology of fermented beverages.
•  Biotechnology of biologically active substances