Olga Romaskevich

"I've been very lucky for the professors I've met. They taught me many things and encouraged my curiosity. I fell in love with mathematics and particularly with geometry," says Olga Romaskevich, who is pursuing a co-supervised thesis at the ENS de Lyon's Pure and Applied Mathematics Unit (UMPA) and at Moscow's Higher School of Economics. She owes her love of science to her grandfather: "He was a researcher in celestial mechanics and we would talk a lot when I was young: about science, the stars, poetry - everything that's beautiful!" Olga Romaskevich heard of the L'Oréal France-UNESCO grant through the UMPA's Marielle Simon, 2014 laureate. "I applied in 2015 but did not get it. I tried my luck again in 2016, and it worked. I think it's an important lesson: to give yourself the opportunity to try again if it doesn't work the first time around, in life as much as in mathematics." Olga feels the urge to talk about her research, her passion.