Svitlana Krakovska

Svitlana Krakovska (Світлана Краковська) is a Ukrainian climate scientist and head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She is an applied climatologist who introduced climate models to Ukraine.

Biography
She graduated from the Leningrad Hydrometeorological Institute with a degree in meteorology. Prior to joining the Antarctic station, she was in Siberia and the Arctic.

She has experience in mountaineering in the mountains of the Caucasus and Central Asia, Crimea and Karelia, skiing in the Khibiny Mountains, kayaking and catamaran rafting, and as a student she did a hydrographic vessel practice from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky around Chukotka, past Wrangel Island to Pevek and back to Providence Bay.

In 1997, she was one of the four Ukrainian women who first visited the Antarctic station Akademik Vernadsky. There, the scientist was engaged in meteorological observations.

Since 2013, she has been a delegate from Ukraine to meetings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She is the author of more than 100 publications.

In 2021, she received an award from President of Ukraine for her longtime contribution to Antarctic and climate change research.

In 2022, she appeared in Nature's 10 annual list "Ten people who helped shape science in 2022" by Nature — the leading British international weekly journal of science.