Academic career and degrees

University of Groningen, Netherlands

  • May 2019 - present Assistant professor

Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen

Department of Science and Engineering

Research on wave dynamics and acoustics

University of Trento, Italy

  • Feb. 2018 - Jan. 2019 Visiting researcher

Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering

Supervisor: Prof. N.M. Pugno

Role: research on acoustic metamaterials and phononic materials

University of Turin, Italy

  • Jan. 2016 - Dec. 2016 Maria-Curie Post-doctoral fellow

Department of Physics

Supervisors: Dr. F. Bosia, Prof. P. Olivero

Topic: TuNAMM - Tunable nonlinear acoustic metamaterials

Role: research on design and modelling of tunable acoustic metamaterials and phononic structures with nonlinear characteristics


  • Sep. 2015 - Nov. 2015 Visiting researcher

Department of Physics

Supervisor: Dr. F. Bosia

Role: research on design and modelling of acoustic metamaterials and phononic structures

Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

  • Mar. 2013 - Aug. 2015 Post-doctoral fellow

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Supervisor: Prof. M.G.D. Geers

Role: theoretical studies on wave propagation in elastic and viscoelastic phononic structures


  • Sep. 2015 - Sep. 2016 Visiting researcher

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Supervisor: Prof. M.G.D. Geers

Role: collaboration in research on locally resonant metamaterials with multi-coated inclusions

Institute of Telecommunications and Global Information Space, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine

  • Oct. 2008 - Mar. 2010 Research fellow

Department of Natural Resources

Supervisor: Prof. O.N. Trofimchuk

Role: research on wave propagation in elastic waveguides of non-trivial cross-section

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  • May 2007 - Aug. 2007 Visiting young researcher

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Supervisor: Prof. Chien-Ching Ma

Role: participation in the joint Taiwan-Ukrainian project "The dynamic characteristics and temperature effects of in-plane vibration of piezoceramic materials" funded by National Science Council, Taiwan, R.O.C. (project number: NSC95-2221-E-002-048-MY2)

Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine

  • Sept. 2005 - Nov. 2008 Ph.D., Mechanics of Deformable Solids

Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Supervisor: Prof. V.V. Meleshko

Thesis: Normal waves in rectangular elastic waveguides

Donetsk National University, Ukraine

  • Sept. 2004 - June 2005 M.Sc., Applied Mathematics

Department of Mathematics

Supervisor: Prof. V.V. Meleshko (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University)

Thesis:Vibrations of thin rectangular piezoelectric resonators

Graduation with honors


  • Sept. 2000 - June 2004 B.Sc., Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Department of Mathematics

Supervisor: Prof. S.A. Kaloerov

Graduation with honors