Olena Yurchenko studied chemistry at the University of Freiburg. She received her Ph.D. in the field of Polymer Chemistry and Electrochemistry in 2010. From 2011 to 2019, she worked as a research assistant and later as a team leader in the Laboratory for Sensors at the Department of Microsystems Engineering at the University of Freiburg. Her research field was on the development of nanomaterials for gas sensors and biofuel cells. In 2019, she joined the Department of Gas and Process Technology at Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM, headed by Prof. Wöllenstein. The focus of her current research activities is especially on thermal techniques for gas detection.