Yelyzaveta Kriukova studied chemistry at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” and received her Master's degree in 2024, focusing on chemical technologies of synthesis and the physical and chemical properties of organic materials. In October 2023, she began working as a Research Assistant in the research group of Prof. Dr. Tobias A.M. Gulder at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany.

With a DAAD scholarship since October 2024, Yelyzaveta has begun her PhD in the Department of Natural Product Biotechnology at HIPS.

Revealing the unexpressed potential of bioactive natural products from lichen cyanobionts of the genus Rhizonema