Olga Lushchikova has obtained her master's degree in Physical Chemistry at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. After that, she continued her education at the FELIX facility, Radboud University and in 2021 obtained the doctor's title. During her PhD, she has investigated the structure and reactivity of gas-phase copper clusters using a unique combination of mass-spectrometry and IR spectroscopy with tuneable light provided by IR free-electron lasers. Catalytic activation of CO2 by copper clusters was of special interest in this research. With the support from the Austrian Science Fund (Lise Meitner program), she has expanded this research and currently studies the activation of CO2 by copper-based bimetallic clusters in superfluid helium nanodroplets.