Maria Marinichenko

PhD Student at Leiden Observatory

I am a PhD researcher in cosmology, who investigates the impact of baryonic effects on late-time cosmological observations. My current work focuses on using the scattering transform to characterize how baryons affect the weak lensing convergence.

Born and raised in Ukraine, I earned my Bachelor's degree in Physics and Astronomy at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, specializing in quantum field theory, before completing a Master's in Cosmology at Leiden University. This academic background allows me to combine fundamental theory with large-scale cosmological phenomena.

Beyond late-time Universe, my research interests include dark matter phenomenology and searches (both collider-based and astrophysical), as well as physics of the early Universe, and advanced statistical methods.
I am also a member of the Euclid Collaboration.