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 “Kremenchuk”, p. Omelnyk, Kremenchuk district, Poltava region.
- 1982 – drafted into the Soviet Army.
- 1983 – foreman of the tractor brigade of the state farm “Kremenchuk”.
- 1984 – admission to the graduate school of the Kharkiv Institute of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture (KhIMEA).
- 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 the machine-tractor park” KhIMEA.
- 2000 – Senior Lecturer of the Department “Operation of Machine-Tractor Park” KhMEA, at that time Kharkiv State Technical University of Agriculture (KhSTUA, Kharkiv, Ukraine);
- 2001 – doctoral student of KhDTUSG.
- 2004 – Leading Research Fellow of KhDTUSG, now the Kharkiv Petro Vasylenko National Technical University of Agriculture (KhNTUA, Kharkiv, Ukraine), hereinafter KhNTUSG.
- 2011 and still – Professor of the Department of Machine-Tractor Fleet Operation, now the optimization of technological systems named after T.P. Yevsyukova KhNTUA.
From 2016 to present – Vice-Rector for Research of the Kharkiv Petro Vassylenko National Technical University of Agriculture.
Today:
- Chairman of the Specialized Academic Council D64.832.04 (KhNTUA) for the defense of dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Sciences.
Member of the Specialized Academic Council D 18.819.01 (TSATU) for the defense of dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Sciences.
Deputy Chairman of the Interdepartmental Coordination and Methodological Council for Scientific and Technical Support of Agricultural Production of Ukraine (Created by NAAS and MES of Ukraine, at NSC “IMEA”).
Chairman of the jury of the “Competition for nominal scholarships in the field of science” HODA in the nomination “Agricultural Sciences – ON Sokolovsky Scholarship”.
Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Environmental Engineering”. ISSN 2311-1828. KhNTUA.
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 crystalline 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 academic 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
- A total of 268 publications, including:
- individual monographs – 4;
- collective monograph – 1;
- articles indexed in Scopus – 14;
- security documents – 58, of which:
- 38 (copyright certificates of the USSR),
- 20 (patents of Ukraine of which 7 patents for inventions);
- articles – 155, from them:
- 76 (in collections of scientific works);
- 2 (in electronic publications);
- 75 (in journals);
- 3 (in books);
- methodical editions – 7.
3 dissertations of the candidate of technical sciences are defended.
Awards
- honorary badge of KhNTUA “For merits”,
- the gratitude of 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 of Omelnyk, Kremenchuk district, Poltava region).
