MELNYK VIKTOR

Education and career

• 1980 – graduated from Poltava Agricultural Institute with a degree in “Mechanization of Agriculture”.
• 1980 – first an engineer for mechanization of labor-intensive processes in animal husbandry, and later a mechanic of the garage of the state farm “Kremenchug”, Omelnyk village, Kremenchug district, Poltava region.
• 1982 – drafted into the Soviet Army.
• 1983 – foreman of the tractor brigade of the state farm “Kremenchug”.
• 1984 – admission to graduate school of Kharkiv Institute of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture.
• 1987 – first a junior researcher, and then a researcher at the Department of “Operation of the machine-tractor fleet” KhIMEA.
• 1992 – Assistant of the Department “Operation of machine-tractor park” KhIMEA.
• 2000 – Senior Lecturer of the Department “Operation of Machine and Tractor Park” KhIMEA, at that time Kharkiv State Technical University of Agriculture (KhSTUA, Kharkiv, Ukraine);
• 2001 – doctoral student of KhSTUA.
• 2004 – Leading Research Fellow of KhSTUA, now Kharkiv Petro Vasylenko National Technical University of Agriculture (KhNTUA, Kharkiv, Ukraine), hereinafter KhNTUA.
• 2011 and still – Professor of the Department of Machine-Tractor Fleet Operation, now the optimization of technological systems named after T. Yevsyukov.
• 2016 to present – Vice-Rector for Research of Kharkiv National Technical University of Agriculture named after Peter.

Today:

1. Chairman of the Specialized Academic Council D64.832.04 (KhNTUA) for the defense of dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Sciences.
2. Member of the Specialized Academic Council D 18.819.01 (TSATU) for the defense of dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Sciences.
3. Deputy Chairman of the Interdepartmental Coordination and Methodological Council for Scientific and Technical Support of Agro-Industrial Production of Ukraine (Created by NAAS and MES of Ukraine, at NSC “IMESG”).
4. Chairman of the jury of the “Competition for nominal scholarships in the field of science” HODA in the nomination “Agricultural Sciences – O. Sokolovsky Scholarship”.
5. Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Environmental Engineering”. ISSN 2311-1828. KhNTUA.
6. Member of the editorial board of the journal “Mathematical Modeling” ISSN: 2519-8114. Dnipro State Technical University.

Research activities

• 2000 – defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences on the topic: “Technological problems of increasing the vibrothermal strength of crystal scintillation detectors” in the specialty 05.27.06 – technology, equipment and production of electronic equipment.
• 2010 – defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences on the topic: “Scientific basis of environmentally friendly technologies and technical means for the application of liquid fertilizers and chemical plant protection” in the specialty 05.05.11 – machines and means of agricultural production.
• 2011 – awarded the title of senior researcher in the field of machinery and means of agricultural production.
• 2013 – elected a full member (academician) of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine.

Scientific publications, patents, grants

• There are only 268 publications, including them:
• individual monographs – 4;
• collective monograph – 1;
• articles are indexed in Scopus – 14;
• security documents – 58, of them:
• 38 (copyright certificates of the USSR),
• 20 (patents of Ukraine of which 7 patents for inventions);
• articles – 155, of them:
• 76 (in collections of scientific works);
• 2 (in electronic publications);
• 75 (in magazines);
• 3 (in books);
• methodical editions – 7.

3 dissertations of the candidate of technical sciences were defended.

Awards

• honorary badge of KhNTUA “For merits”,
• the thanks from the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine,
• gratitude and diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine,
• in 2012 he was elected an honorary citizen of Omelnytsia village council (village Omelnyk, Kremenchug district, Poltava region).