Volodymyr Turkevych

Biography

He graduated in 1981 from the Heat and Power Faculty of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, now the National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute', as an engineer-thermal physicist. He defended his Ph.D. thesis in physical and mathematical sciences in 1987 at the Institute of Metal Physics of NAS of Ukraine, and his Doctor of Chemical Science thesis in 1996 at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Since 2009 he has been a corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, and in 2011 he was granted the title of professor. He has worked at the Institute for Superhard Materials of NAS Ukraine since 1981, becoming its director in 2015. His international roles include invited researcher positions at the University of Bonn, Germany (1995); University of Paderborn, Germany (1998, 1999); JAERI, Spring-8 in Harima, Japan (2001); NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan (2003); and invited professor at the University-13, Paris, France (2003–2007). He has been a guest professor at the University of Lund, Sweden since 2011. He also held combined professor positions at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2003–2007) and at KPI (2007–present). He serves as vice editor-in-chief of the journal Superhard Materials (since 1997), deputy academic-secretary of the Department of Physical and Technical Problems of Materials Science (since 2004), and head of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Superhard Materials of NAS of Ukraine (since 2014).