First name: Fedir

Family name: Dudkin

Affiliation and official address:

Lviv Center of Institute for Space Research (LC ISR) of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine & National Space Agency of Ukraine, 5-A Naukova St., 79000, Lviv, Ukraine

Education (degree, dates, universities)

1963-1966: BS, Radiopolytechnic College, Leningrad, Russia; 1967-1973: MSc, State University, Lviv, Ukraine; 1994: PhD, Institute of Physics and Mechanics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Dissertation area: theoretical study of active electromagnetic (EM) sounding system in stratified lossy media. Cert.: theoretical physics, radioengineering.

Career / Employment (employers, positions and dates)

1965-1966: technician, Institute of Physics and Technics of Academy of Sciences of USSR, Leningrad, Russia.

1966-1975: radioengineer, research scientist, Institute of Medical Electronics, Lviv, Ukraine. Scientific work area: theoretical and experimental studies of bioelectric activity of human body (brain and muscles).

1976-1997: research scientist, Institute of Physics and Mechanics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine. Scientific work area: marine EM sounding (theory and development of active EM systems), theoretical and experimental investigations of very low frequency EM waves of different origins (antennas, interference, ionospheric currents) in variety media (air, sea water, ground, space plasma).

1997- , senior research scientist, LC ISR. Scientific work area: 1) development of theory and methods for detection and location of ultralow frequency EM sources, particularly for study of pre earthquake lithospheric EM activity; 2) development of theory of active EM sounding for natural hazards prediction (a) for study of the Earth’s crust conductivity changes (for earthquakes and volcanic eruptions forecast), (b) for study the solar wind – magnetosphere interactions (for space weather forecast); 3) development of theory and methods of electric and magnetic measurements in variety media (space plasma, Earth, sea water etc.); 4) theoretical study of current density measurements in space plasma; 5) detection of subsurface objects by portable active EM sounding systems.

Honours, Awards, Fellowships, Membership of Professional Societies

Medal of USSR exposition of National Achievements, Moscow, 1974.
Ukrainian National Prize for Science and Technology, 2008.
Royal Society visiting fellow: University of Sussex, England, 1997; University of Sheffield, England, 1998, 2001.
Grantee NATO, 1999-2001.
Russian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Russia, Moscow, 2006, academician.
ACS (American Chemical Society), USA, Washington, DC, 2009, member.
Biographical reference books: Marquis “Who is Who in America”, 65 ed. (USA, 2009);
Marquis “Who is Who in the World”, 19-26 eds. (USA, 2002-2009);
Marquis “Who is Who in the Science and Engineering”, 7-10 eds. (USA, 2003-2009).
“Who’s Who, Russian edition”, eds. 8-11 (Moscow, Russia, 2005-2008).

Publications

Number of scientific publications: more than 140, including 2 monographs.