Kristina Kvashnina

Current Positions

• Head of the Synchrotron Science Department and Full Professor (W3) at the Institute of Resource Ecology (IRE), Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, (HZDR), Germany
• Head of the Rossendorf Beamline, funded by HZDR (Germany) at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France
• Professeur attaché à l’Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Department of Physics, Engineering, Earth Sciences, Environment and Mechanics (PhITEM) and Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTerre), France

Education

• 2017 – Habilitation (HDR), Physics, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
• 2006 – PhD (Physics), Uppsala University, Department of Physics, Sweden
• 2000 – MS (Physics), Ural State Technical University, Theoretical Physics, Russia

Previous Positions

• 2018 – 2023 Head of the Electronic Structure Group at the Rossendorf Beamline of ESRF, France funded and operated by the IRE, HZDR, Germany
• 2015 – 2018 Beamline Scientist at the Rossendorf Beamline of ESRF, funded by the IRE, HZDR, Germany
• 2010 – 2015 Beamline Scientist at ID26 Beamline of ESRF, France
• 2008 – 2010 Post-Doctoral Fellow at ID26 beamline of ESRF, France
• 2006 – 2008 Post-Doctoral Fellow at BM26 beamline of ESRF, funded by NWO, The Netherlands

Honours and Awards

• 2015 – Winner of HZDR “High Potential Program”, Germany
• 2021 – Included in the international database of excellent female researchers AcademiaNet by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
• 2021 – Named Top 10 strong female scientists by Forbes Russia
• 2023-2024-2025 – Included in the list of “World’s Top 2%” scientists by Stanford University, USA

Committee and Review Activities

• Main Editor of the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (IUCr journal), UK
• Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio) journal, UK
• Review Panel Member, Joint Research Center (JRC) in Karlsruhe for nuclear Safety and Security, European Commission (since 2018)
• Review Panel Member, MSCA (Marie Sklodowska-Curie) Postdoctoral Fellowships, Chemistry Panel, European Commission (since 2024)
• Review Panel Member, Petra III, DESY synchrotron (Hamburg), Germany (2020-2025)
• Proposal Reviewer for Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland; Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), USA; National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary; The Italian Ministry for Education (MIUR), Italy; Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme, Germany
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the “Journées des Actinides” JdA Conference
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the ATAS -AnXAS Conference

Projects

• TOP: Towards the Bottom of the Periodic Table, funded by European Research Council (ERC), (ERC StG Grant), Budget: 1.5 million € / 5 years (2018-2023)
• FACKEL: Fundamentals of f-electron systems by cutting edge X-ray methods and Models, funded by Helmholtz Association Program “Funding of first-time professorial appointments of excellent women scientists (W2/W3)” , Budget: 500 k € / year (since 2022)
• MaLaR: Novel 2D-3D Materials for Lanthanide Recovery from Nuclear Waste, funded by European Commission HORIZON-EURATOM-2023-NRT-01-09 , Budget: 2.3 million € / 3 years (2025 – 2028)

Teaching

• Instrumental Optics (PHYS 236) at the University Grenoble Alpes (France), Winter Semester, in English