On August 29, 2025, the public defense of the PhD thesis by Rostyslav Svoyakov, a postgraduate student at the SSI "Institute for Single Crystals" of the NAS of Ukraine, took place. The dissertation "Synthesis and Study of Squaraine Dyes and Supramolecular Systems Based on Them", was submitted for the degree of PhD in Specialty 102 – Chemistry, field of knowledge 10 – Natural Sciences.

Academic Advisors:
Dr. Anatoliy TATARETS 
Head of the B.M. Krasovitskiy Department of Luminescent Materials and Dyes,
SSI "Institute for Single Crystals" of the NAS of Ukraine

Dr, Olesia KULYK,
Deputy Director of the Institute of Functional Materials Chemistry,
SSI "Institute for Single Crystals" of the NAS of Ukraine

The research was carried out within the framework of scientific projects of the B.M. Krasovitskiy Department of Luminescent Materials and Dyes of the SSI "Institute for Single Crystals" of the NAS of Ukraine, as part of the institutional research program of the NAS of Ukraine and grants from the National Research Foundation of Ukraine, including the SupraKha grant (State Registration No. 0124U004748).