Yuriy V. Kostyuchenko
Associated Professor
Shevchenko KievStateUniversity
Ukraine
Biography
Dr. Kostyuchenko, Yuriy Ph.D., Associated Professor, is a Leading Research Scientist and leader of an Ad-hoc workgroup on disaster analysis and risk assessment of Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He received an MS in Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy from Moscow State University in 1993. After that he joined National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine as a Scientist, where he received his PhD in Geophysics and Remote Sensing in 1997. In 2011-2014 he served on position of Assistant Professor of the Geomorphology and Soil Science Department of the Faculty of Geography, Kiev University. Since 2000 he serves as Executive secretary of Ukrainian National Member Organization of International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Yuriy V. Kostyuchenko is a member of Risk and Vulnerability Committee of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), member of American Meteorological Society (AMS), American Statistical Society (ASA), and International Association for Promotion Geoethics (IAPG). He is author and co-author of more than 70 scientific papers and book chapters in fields of remote sensing, Earth sciences (ecology, climate change), engineering and social sciences
Research Interest
Remote Sensing and GIS application for Environmental and Socio-ecological Security analysis, Risk Analysis using non-parametric approaches, Climate Change.