Ukrainian Science Diaspora Platform

Platform for the Ukrainian scientific diaspora: Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine + the Council of Young Scientists. 400+ scientist profiles across the world, connected for joint research, mentorship, and return-to-Ukraine programs. Audience: scientists themselves and the MoES/coordinator team that works with them. Built: interactive map with clustering, filters, and granular privacy (anonymous visitors see a limited field set, authorized see the full profile), scientist catalog with search and filters, profile pages, mentorship matching, Wagtail CMS for the content team (news, events, analytics reports, policy briefs), reception for civic initiatives (petitions, grants, mentorship, newsletter), stats dashboard with charts and Excel export, full UK/EN multilingual with canonicals, hreflang, and sitemaps. AI / automation layer: Telegram bot with an LLM assistant grounded in a curated knowledge base (12 topics + anti-hallucination / anti-injection rails), layered LLM spam filter in the main group chat (regex + heuristics + LLM), ORCID Public API integration that auto-runs a pre-check on every new registration (matches name, country, current affiliation, publication count against what the user entered) and routes the result to coordinators in Telegram, LLM address normalization for geocoding via LocationIQ, grant scraper with LLM classification, auto-alerts to team Telegram on new registrations and approvals with direct admin links. Stack: Django + Wagtail CMS, Tailwind, Leaflet (MarkerCluster), Chart.js, FastAPI for the telegram-bot service, aiogram + telethon, ORCID Public API, LocationIQ. Docker Compose deploy, CI/CD via GitHub Actions, DB and media backups through Telegram (telethon, up to 2GB per file). Active platform - new integrations and AI features ship weekly, not a one-off landing.