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Vitaly Starostenko

Directorate Advisor, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine,
   Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Sciences, Professor

vstar@igph.kiev.ua

Tel: +38(044) 424-01-12; 423-94-90

 

Vitaly Starostenko V.I. Starostenko was born on the 13th of April 1935 in Kyiv in a family of employees.

1958 - graduated from Kyiv State University named after T.G. Shevchenko by speciality "Geophysical methods of the search and exploration of mineral deposits";

1958 -1961 - engineer of Kyiv geophysical expedition of the trust "Ukrgeophysrazvedka";

1961 - 1964 -- graduate student of the Institute of Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, scientific supervisor, Doctor of Geol.-min. of Sciences I.A. Balabushevych;

1964 - Subordinate Research Worker;

1966 - Candidate of Technical Sciences. Theses "Determination of gravity potential and its derivatives by the measured elements of gravity field having regard to the use of electron calculating mashines"; was defended at Dnepropetrovsky Mining Institute named after Artem;

1968 - Supervising Research Worker of the Department of Theory, Interpretation and Generalization of Geophysical Data;

1968 - Supervising Research Worker of the Department of Deep-Seated Processes of the Earth and gravimetry of the Institute of Geophysics Ac. Sci. Ukr. SSR;

1971 - was given a scientific title "Supervising Research Worker";

1975 - Deputy Director of the Institute of Geophysics Ac. Sci. Ukr. SSR on science;

1976 - Chief of the Department of Deep-Seated Processes of the Earth and gravimetry;

1977 - Doctor of Physical- Mathematical Sciences. Doctor Theses "Problems of theory and procedures of interpretation of gravimetric observations by stabile numerical methods" were defended at Moskow State University;

1978 - 1988 - Deputy Academician-Secretary of the Division of the Earth Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;

1984 - was given a scientific title "Professor";

1985 - elected Corresponding Member of Ac. Sci. Ukr. SSR;

1988 - Academician-Secretary of the Division of the Earth Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Member of Presidium of Ac. Sci. of Ukraine;

1990 - Academician of Ac. Sci. of Ukraine;

1991 - 2021 - director of the Institute of Geophysics named by S. Subbotin NAS Ukraine.

From December 2021 to the present - advisor to the directorate of the Institute of Geophysics named by S. Subbotin of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

The main line of the scientific activity is related to the theory of interpretation of potential fields; the problem of creation of automated systems of processing and interpretation on Electron Calculating Mashines (ECM) of gravimetric and electrometric data; theory and methods of solution of incorrectly set problems of geophysics; problem of plotting density models of the Crust and the Upper Mantle of the Earth.

Author of more than seven hundred scientific works, including five monographs. In addition to Ukraine, the works were published in England, India, Italy, China, Poland, the USA, France, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and Switzerland.
Under the leadership of V.I. Starostenko were defended 5 doctoral theses and 30 candidate theses.

Editor-in-Chief of the "Geophysical Journal".

 

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V.I. Starostenko

- Laureate of the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR in the field of science and technology in 1984 for the series of works "Theory, methodology and results of the study of the lithosphere of Ukraine and adjacent territories based on the complex of seismometry, gravimetry and geothermal data", which includes more than 30 monographs (as part of the group of IGF employees),

- The State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology in 1995 for the eight-volume monograph "Lithosphere of Central and Eastern Europe" (as part of a group of IGF employees),

- Laureate of the S.I. Subbotin Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for 2015.

In 1973 - he received the Gold Medal of the VDNG of the USSR (with the employees of the Ministry of Geology of the Ukrainian SSR) for the automated system of processing and interpretation of gravity and magnetic data.

In 1981, he was awarded the "Badge of Honor" order. In 1985 - with an honorary diploma of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR.

Since 1997 - Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine.

In 2005, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the III degree and the Naftogaz of Ukraine 1st degree award.

In 2006, for outstanding services in the field of geophysics, he was awarded a commemorative medal named after Academician M.A. Sadovsky RAS.

In 2010 - for a significant contribution to scientific and applied research in the field of geophysics, high achievements in professional activity, and on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Institute's founding, he was awarded the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "For Scientific Achievements" award.

2010 - L.I. Lutugin medal "For merits in exploration of the subsurface of Ukraine" by the State Geological Service of Ukraine;

2010 - Honored by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "For Scientific Achievements".

2013 - Certificate of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine "For services to the Ukrainian people".

2014 - Prize of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for the development and implementation of innovative technologies. Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated May 16, 2014.

2015 - Order of Merit II degree.

2015 - Award of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "For preparation of scientific change".

2015 - Awarded with a valuable gift (a watch) (Order of the leadership of the Apparatus of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No. 4829 dated 04/29/2015).

2016 - Honors "For a significant personal contribution to the development of science and education":
   - "30 years since the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant";
   - "20 years of "Akademik Vernadskyi" Antarctic station".

 

List of scientific works of Vitaliy Ivanovich Starostenko

 

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