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One of the main targets of Russia's ongoing attacks on Ukraine is the energy infrastructure. The extent of the destruction is enormous.

"One year after the start of the war in February 2022, 76% of thermal power plants had been destroyed; now the figure is 95%," says Ukrainian scientist Iryna Doronina. "And all the large hydroelectric power plants have also failed."

The breaching of the Kakhovka dam proved to be particularly devastating. The huge outflow of water—the reservoir covered an area 1.5 times bigger than the canton of Zurich—destroyed thousands of homes and left the reservoir a desert.

Before the war, Doronina was a lecturer at the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics; in 2022, she came to ETH Zurich as an SNSF Scholar at Risk. This Swiss National Science Foundation program provides Swiss universities with financial support so they can give temporary employment to researchers at risk. That's how Doronina ended up as a Senior Researcher at the ETH Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISPT) until 2024.

Today, she continues her research at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). In Zurich, she worked closely with the groups led by Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Professor of Planning Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS), and by Tobias Schmidt, Professor of Energy and Technology Policy and Head of the ISTP.

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