Sviatlana Shashkova is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Department of Physics, GU. After obtaining her Master’s degree in biotechnology from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, she received my PhD in microbiology in 2016 at the University of Gothenburg. It was then followed by a position as a Royal Society Newton International Fellow within the biological physics group at the University of York, United Kingdom. In 2019, she moved back to Sweden for a postdoc at Sahlgrenska Academy, to put her previous knowledge and experience into a broader context of ageing and protein quality control associated with it. This was followed by a researcher position at the Department at Mathematical Sciences, GU, where she led the experimental efforts of the group. She recently became a principal investigator working within the area of biophysics. Her research revolves around studying the mechanisms and dynamics of stress-induced protein assemblies directly in living eukaryotic cells at the level of individual molecules.
