Education:

– 1990-1993 – postgraduate study at the Department of Ecology and Landscape Architecture
Ukrainian National Forestry University.
– 1983-1990 – Faculty of Forestry, Lviv Forestry Institute, qualification – forestry engineer (PB №829056);

Scientific Degree:

– 2014 – Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (ДД №003608).
– 1994 – Candidate of Agricultural Sciences (КН №005477);

Academic status:

– 2003 – Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Landscape Architecture (ДЦ №008638)

Teaching activity:

– 2015-Present – Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Gardening, and Urban Ecology at Ukrainian National    Forestry University.
– 2015 – Professor of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Gardening, and Urban Ecology at Ukrainian National Forestry University.
– 2004-2014 – Associate Professor of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Gardening, and Urban Ecology at Ukrainian National Forestry University.
– 1998-2004 – Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Landscape Architecture at Ukrainian National Forestry University.
– 1995-1998 – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ecology and Landscape Architecture at Ukrainian National Forestry University.
– 1994-1995 – Assistant of the Department of Ecology and Landscape Architecture at Ukrainian National Forestry University.

Awarded with a Certificate of Honor from the Ministry of Education of Ukraine for diligent work with gifted student youth (Order No. 678, October 12, 2001)

Foreign Internships:

– Institute of General Ecology and Environmental Protection at Dresden Technical University, Germany (July 2000, August 2002, January 2004, April 2005);
– Wroclaw Proecology Center, Poland (June 2003).

Areas of research and methodological work:

– phytomelioration and recultivation of disturbed territories;
– transformation processes in the forest ecosystems of the Carpathian region;
– environmental problems of urban areas;
– environmental education;
– sustainable development of self-governing territories.

Author of more than 180 publications (articles, conference materials, methodologies, scientific publications, educational textbooks)

Co-author of scientific publications:

– Problems of access of local people to forest resources and illegal logging in forests

Carpathians and Western Polesie: monograph. – Lviv: Green Cross, Liga- Press. -2011. -256 p.

– Nature Reserve Fund of Ukraine: economic modeling and forecasting activities: monograph. –

Lviv: Green Cross, Liga-Press. – 2011. – 304 p.

– Carpathian Forestry Advisor: Scientific Edition. – Ivano-Frankivsk: Foliant, 2008. – 368 p.

Co-author of the educational textbooks:

– Fundamentals of ecology and socioecology. – Lviv: For Free Ukraine, 1997. – 210 p.
– Recultivation and phytomelioration. – Lviv: GAFSA, 2006. – 116 p.
– Close to nature and multifunctional forestry in the Carpathian region of Ukraine and Slovakia.
– Uzhgorod: Kolo PE, 2014. – 278 p.
– Management of a professional educational institution on the principles of sustainable development. –Ivano-Frankivsk: Lily-NV, 2014. – 224 p.
– Recultivation. – Lviv: – Lviv: Scientific-Production Company “ATB”, 2019. – 288 p.

Publications on strategic development of territories:

– Strategic plans for sustainable development of self-governing territories: a methodological advisor. – Lviv: Green Cross, 2003. – 38 p.
– Gorodok. Sustainable city development strategy. – Lviv: Exitep, 2004. – 152 p.
– Yavoriv. Sustainable city development strategy. – Lviv: Exitep, 2004. – 112 p.
– European experience in building dialogue between the public and local authorities: manual. –  Lugansk: Polyprint, 2007. – 163 p.
– Strategic Planning for Sustainable Development with Community Participation: A Practical Guide. –  Exactly: Printing House, 2004. – 124 p.
– Pystomyty. Sustainable development strategy of the district. – Lviv: Typewriters, 2010. – 152 p.

Participant in international projects (major one):

– Environmental Issues of Cultural and Historical Centers of Eastern Europe the Renaissance Foundation);
– Main causes of deforestation and forest degradation (United Nations Environment Program);
– Transformation Processes in the Dnister River Region (German Federal Ministry of Education and Science);
– Develop and evaluate local sustainable development strategies in Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine (United Nations Development Program);
– ENPI FLEG Program “Improvement of Law Enforcement and Management Systems in the forestry sector of the Eastern European Neighborhood Policy and Russia ”(European Commission and World Bank).

 Social activities:

– Deputy Director of the NGO “European Dialogue”;
– Member of the Board of the Green Cross Society;
– Deputy Head of the Lviv Branch of the National Ecological Center of Ukraine.