Olena Korzun

Prof. Dr. Olena Korzun is a Research Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich's Department of History of Science. She holds a PhD in History and specializes in the history of agricultural science, with a focus on knowledge generation, organizational structures, and intercultural cooperation in scientific communities.

• Doctor of Historical Sciences (2020)
• Candidate of Historical Sciences (2010)
• Studied history at Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University (1996-2001)
• Specialized in agrarian sciences at Vinnytsia Agrarian University (2005-2007)

Her research spans modern agricultural science history, intercultural interactions during crises like WWII, and the institutionalization of agrarian knowledge systems. Key projects examine German-Ukrainian scientific relationships across the 19th-20th centuries and Soviet-era agricultural policies.

Recent publications analyze agricultural experimentation under German occupation (2022), Czech-Ukrainian pomology (2022), and WWII-era hydrobiological research (2019). She contributes to editorial projects documenting Soviet agricultural science (2020-2021) and serves on international research groups including Max Planck Institute's 'Practices of Validation in Biomedical Sciences' (2022-2024).

• Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation grant recipient
• Member of German-Ukrainian Historical Commission (2019)
• Participant in European science cooperation network (2022)
• Max Planck Institute for History of Science researcher (2022)

She lectures at Kyiv's National Scientific Agricultural Library while maintaining active research roles. Past affiliations include positions at National Pirogov Memorial Medical University and Museum of Polish History.