KOFANOVA OLENA – DEPARTMENT OF GEOENGINEERING

KOFANOVA OLENA
Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Ph.D. in Chemistry, Professor, Professor of the Department of Geoengineering

The topic of the doctoral thesis is “Methodical principles of chemical training of prospective bachelors-environmentalists in a higher technical educational institution”. The thesis was defended in 2013 at a meeting of the specialized academic council D26.452.01 in the specialty 13.00.04 – Theory and methods of professional education.

The topic of the Ph.D. thesis is “Influence of solvent on thermodynamics of processes of ionic association and ionic migration of asymmetric electrolytes”. The thesis was defended in 1990 at a meeting of the specialized scientific council K068.14.16 in the specialty 02.00.04 – Physical chemistry.

Professor of the Department of Engineering Ecology (2015).

Associate Professor of the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry (2001).

Research interests:
– problems of environmental protection;
– study of pollution of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere;
– environmental problems of the mining industry;
– underground urban planning;
– problems of climate change on the planet;
– environmental problems of the motor transport complex;
– environmental management and circular economy;
– thermodynamic characteristics of chemical and physicochemical processes;
– pedagogy (professional education, STEM-education, methods of teaching physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc.).

Biographical information. She was born on April 14, 1961, in the city of Arkhangelsk.

Higher education.
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1984, diploma with honors in “Chemical technology of binding materials”, qualification of chemical engineer-technologist.
In 1984 she entered the graduate school of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
In 2007 she was attached as a scientific correspondent to the Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine.

Scientific and pedagogical activity:
– from 1999 to 2014, Associate Professor of the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Ecobiotechnology and Bioenergy, Department of Engineering Ecology, National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”;
– from 2014 to 2020 Professor of the Department of Engineering Ecology, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”;
– from 2020 to the present – Professor at the Department of Geoengineering, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”.

Teaches disciplines:
Specialty “101” Ecology:
– Environmental impact assessment;
– Permitting activities in ecology;
– Chemistry with the basics of biogeochemistry;
– Urban ecology;
– Ecotoxicology;
– Human ecology;
– Environmental chemistry;
– Course project on environmental chemistry;
– Physical aspects of natural disasters.

General university disciplines:
– Environmental protection strategies;
– Engineering ecology for the energy industry;
– Engineering ecology;
– Industrial ecology.

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