Svitlana Kolomiyets

Svitlana Kolomiyets
Head of Radio Astronomy Research Laboratory named B.L. Kashcheyev of Research Department, PhD, Senior Researcher

Education and Career

1972-1977 she studied at Kharkiv State University named M. Gorky (KhSU), now called KhNU named VN Karazin, at the Faculty of Physics.

1977 – diploma of KhSU on specialty “astronomy”. December 15, 2015 – PhD, the degree of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences in the specialty 05.07.12 “Remote aerospace research”, defense at the National Aviation University (Kyiv).

From 1977 till now – the employee of KhIRE, KhTURE, KhNURE, NURE, for years:

  • 1977-2000 – junior researcher of the problem research laboratory of radio engineering (PSRL RT KhIRE),
  • 2000-2009 – researcher of the scientific and educational center of the Department of Radio Engineering (SEC BRT KhIRE / KhTURE),
  • 2009-2015 – researcher of the research laboratory of radio astronomy named BL Kashcheyev of Research Department (RL RA of SD, NURE),
  • March-22 May 2016 – Senior Research Scientist of the RL RA of SD, KhNURE,
  • May 23, 2016 till now – Head of the RL RA of SD, KhNURE / NURE.

Educational activity

Management of scientific work of students and postgraduates, public lectures on astronomy are scheduled.


Researcher activity

  1. Scientific and administrative leadership of the research laboratory from 2016.
  2. Scientific supervisor of the section of the applied state budget research project, the executor and responsible executor of the fundamental and applied research projects of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The last three research projects are as follows: 1-2) Applied projects: Section 312-5 “Improvement of methods of post-processing of observation meteoric data of ground-based remote sensing of the Earth’s atmosphere by radio-technical means for tasks Environmental Monitoring and Emergencies” (2016-2017); Section 287-1 “Development of the distribution model and genetic bonds of meteor matter of near-Earth space in orbits with large eccentricity values” (2014-2015);
  3. Fundamental project: Section 253-1 “Investigation of the fine structure of the distribution of elements of small bodies of the Solar system (comets, asteroids and meteoroids), (2011-2013).

Scientific interests: meteor astronomy, radio astronomy, meteor radar research, Small Solar system bodies, orbits, meteor databases.

01.07.2021 – 31.12.2021 – Part-time Senior Research Fellow of the problem research laboratory “Radio monitoring and processing of radio-technical information” NURE. Orders Rectors NURE №32 KN of 07/07/2021.


International activity / participation in international projects

  1. Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), in particular, the member of the IAU F1 committee “Meteors, meteorites and interplanetary dust” and the member of the Organizing Committee of the IAU Scientific Symposium 345 (to the 100th anniversary of the IAU) at the 30th General Assembly of the IAU-2018;
  2. Member of the European Astronomical Society.
  3. Associate member of the COSPAR (the Committee on Space Research)
  4. 2007: coordinator of the discipline “Meteors, meteoroids, dust” of the international project “International Heliophysicalal Year 2007”.
  5. Participation in international grant conferences:
  • 2017 – Southern horizons in Time-Domain astronomy (Stellenbosch near Cape Town, South Africa,), European week of Astronomy and Space Science (Prague, Czech Republic);
  • 2016 – Meteoroids (Noordwijk, the Netherlands), Astroinformatics (Sorrento, Italy);
  • 2015 – XXIX General Assembly of IAU (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA).

Social activity

1.Member of the Ukrainian Astronomical Association (Member of the Council of UAA).

2.The delegate of the conferences of the NURE labor collective is selected from the Scientific Department.

3. Work on preserving the property of the NURE scientific meteor school of Kashcheyev.


State Awards

Certificates of the university administration for good work; encouragements with monetary awards, the latter for the successful holding of the international scientific conference in memory of BL. Kashcheyev (2016).


Publications and patents

More than 40 publications, 1 bio-bibliographic index, chapters of monographs (3), Editor of the abstracts of the conference (1).