now at Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Bremerhaven
Larysa Istomina received her Masters Degree in physics and astronomy at the National Karazin University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 2006. After 1.5 years as a postgraduate researcher at the Institute of Astronomy, Kharkiv, Ukraine, in September 2007 she started her Ph.D. in physics at the Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. She finished her Ph.D. research dedicated to the remote sensing of atmospheric aerosol in the Arctic in 2011. Thereafter, since August 2011 and until July 2014, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, within the EU project SIDARUS. Since then and till 2018, Larysa Istomina was employed as a postdoctoral researcher within the EU project SPICES and as a consulting staff at the AC3 Transregio. Then in 2019, after a period of self-employment in scientific programming and report writing, she took up the 3 year and then 1 year postdoctoral positions as a sole PI in her DFG projects within the SPP-1158 at Alfred-Wegener-Institute.
Her main research interests are: