Crystallography PhD prize 2025
The Swiss Society for Crystallography awards the 2025 PhD Prize to Dr. Yevhenilia Kholina for her thesis, “Correlated disorder in Prussian Blue analogues: from understanding to control of the local structure.”, conducted at the Laboratory for Disordered Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich. The award will be presented at the SSCr Annual Meeting in Lausanne, on September 10, at 11.00
The Swiss Society for Crystallography awards the 2025 PhD Prize to Dr. Yevhenilia Kholina for her exceptional thesis, “Correlated disorder in Prussian Blue analogues: from understanding to control of the local structure.”
Her research, conducted at the Laboratory for Disordered Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, under the supervision of Prof. Arkadiy Simonov, combines advanced 3DΔ-PDF analysis and Monte Carlo simulations to reveal how correlated disorder influences material properties, even when chemical composition and average structure remain unchanged.
Dr. Kholina demonstrated how to control disorder using accessible synthesis parameters, enabling practical applications such as enhanced hydrogen storage and symmetry tuning. She also discovered hidden phase transitions detectable only through diffuse scattering.
We warmly congratulate Dr. Kholina on this achievement and look forward to her continued contributions to crystallography.