Oksana Leontyeva, PhD, independent researcher, Associate Professor, KROK- University, Kyiv, Ukraine. She has been working with international students for over 20 years and conducts research in the field of intercultural communication. Being in constant contact with representatives of different cultures, which sometimes differ radically from each other, Dr Oksana Leontyeva became interested in interdisciplinary research that helps shed light on models of culture related to the perception of the world and its representation in thought processes, and not only in material creativity. Such cultural models are based on ways of perceiving the world, which is why Dr. Oksana Leontieva's research focuses on the ways in which cultures perceive the world, the distinctive features of cultural perceptions of the world, and the specificity of their worldviews. Accordingly, all these factors influence the uniqueness of thinking among representatives of different cultures, which is manifested through language. Dr Oksana Leontieva's research touches upon neuropsychological and neurocognitive factors that determine the characteristics of a culture's perception of the world and the values that this culture professes. Dr Leontieva's research touches not only on linguistics, but also on neuroscience, anthropology, medicine, philosophy and psychology. Dr Oksana Leontieva is a member of an international research group at the Institute of Slavic Studies at Karl-Franzens University in Graz (Austria) studying the work of Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andrić. There she works as a researcher specialising in cognitive semantics. For one year, Dr Oksana Leontieva worked as a visiting professor at the Institute of East Slavic Philology at Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland). Completed a research internship at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland). Internship topic: The influence of cultural models on the formation of political discourse. She gave a presentation on the differences between Western and Eastern political discourses at an international conference in Tehran (Iran). Representatives from more than 15 countries in Europe and Asia participated in the conference. She is a member of two international scientific societies. For eight years, she headed the Department of Foreign Languages and was the initiator and editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Focus of Language. She has been awarded two certificates of honour from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine as the best teacher and for her significant contribution to the development of science and education in Ukraine. As head of the department, she collaborated with many diplomatic missions in Ukraine, thereby promoting knowledge about different countries and their cultures to Ukrainian students. Author of several language teaching methods for foreign students, taking into account the specifics of their culture. For example, the method developed for Chinese students allowed them to master communication in Russian at the A1 level in 2 months instead of 10. Author of many publications in international English-language journals. She wrote the chapter ‘Marketing Mistakes in Intercultural Communication’ for the book ‘Marketing,’ published in 2024 by IntechOpen. The latest published scientific research concerns the way culture perceives the world, the mechanism of formation and display of sacral-value relations in the language of culture, basic determinants as prerequisites for a culture to form its way of knowing the world, thought-forms and primary mental cognitions as a basis for the formation of the way culture knows the world. informational and semantic errors that arise when translating cultural codes in intercultural communication, the role of language in shaping cultural value models, the influence of semantic fields that arose in the early stages of cultural formation on its value models, and the role of sacred connections in shaping cultural value models. She proposed introducing the new concept of Homo excultus as the highest form of Homo sapiens, understood as a person of values, and explained the need for introducing such a concept. She has been a speaker at numerous international conferences, including in Iran, Poland, Austria, Montenegro, Spain, Russia, and Serbia. She has participated remotely (abstracts and articles) in scientific conferences held in China.