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From 2016 to 2021, he worked as Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine. Since February 1, 2022, he has held the position of Director of the Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation of the NAAS. In 2024, he defended his doctoral dissertation in the specialty 21.06.01 – Environmental Safety. The primary areas of his professional activity include the development of legislation and regulatory acts regarding water sector development and issues arising from the 2023 destruction of the Kakhovka Reservoir dam, the improvement of integrated water management based on the river basin principle, water quality monitoring, the scientific substantiation of protection measures against the harmful effects of water and the development of legislative and regulatory frameworks for the water sector.

He is also the Chair of GWP-Ukraine (Global Water Partnership – Ukraine) and a member of the GWP Central and Eastern Europe Regional Council as well as one of the initiators of the Global Water Initiative of Ukraine. He is a participant in numerous international scientific projects focused on implementing integrated water management in Ukraine and the author and co-author of over 100 scientific publications.

He graduated with honors from Kherson State Agrarian University, qualifying as a hydraulic engineer (2002). From 2002 to 2003, he worked as a researcher in the Department of Irrigated Agriculture at the Institute of Southern Vegetable and Melon Growing of the UAAS (Hola Prystan town, Skadovsk District, Kherson Region). Since 2003, he worked at the Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation of the NAAS (Kyiv) as a postgraduate student (2004–2006), as a researcher (2006), and as the Head of the Micro-irrigation Laboratory (2007–2011). Since July 2011, he has occupied the post of Deputy Director for Research. As a scientist, he developed and scientifically substantiated drip irrigation technologies for crops that ensure optimal plant productivity while maintaining the ecological stability of agrolandscapes. He is the Chair of Technical Standardization Committee 145 “Land Reclamation and Water Management” (2015–2026), Chair of the Specialized Academic Council D 26.362.01 for doctoral and candidate dissertation defenses (2022–2025; Deputy Chair from 2026), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed scientific journal “Land Reclamation and Water Management”, FAO (UN) Technical Expert on water management and irrigation, member of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) Working Group on Irrigation and Drainage in the Countries of Socio-Economic Transition (WG-IDSST) and the guarantor of “Agronomy” educational and research program (H1) at the Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences (NAAS). He undertook his professional internships in Israel, the USA, and Italy in his area of research.

He has supervised the training of 7 PhDs and 1 Doctor of Sciences and is the author or co-author of over 410 scientific publications.

From October 2013 to January 2022, she worked as the Scientific Secretary and concurrently as the Head of the Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies Department at the Institute of Irrigated Agriculture in Kherson city. In January 2022, she transferred to the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, where she worked until November 2024 as the Head of the Consolidated Planning Division within the Scientific and Organizational Department of the Presidium Apparatus (Kyiv city).

Since November 2024, she has occupied the position of Scientific Secretary at the Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation (NAAS). Her primary areas of professional activity include research and scientific substantiation of applying various fertilization systems, tillage methods, and moisture regimes for growing major crops, determining the mechanisms of soil processes under different reclamation conditions and developing comprehensive measures to improve soil fertility.

She is the author and co-author of over 260 scientific publications.