Nature spoke to three Ukrainian researchers whose lives have been upended by Russia’s brutal invasion. One of them is plasma physicist Olena Prysiazhna. Together with her mother and sister she fled Ukraine for the Netherlands. Prysiazhna and her sister, who is also a physicist, have begun visiting and talking to researchers at the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research in Eindhoven. It’s still early days — Prysiazhna is exploring which direction her research could take and whether an arrangement might be formalized. One option might be to continue her work on optical emission spectroscopy analysis, a technique that can probe the properties of plasmas. “If we want to make everything better, we have to work. We have to make our small steps and do everything we can,” says Prysiazhna.
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