Personal information
First name(s) / Surname(s) Vasyl Rizak
Address(es) 84/10 Volodymyrska Str., 88000 Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Telephone(s): +380673122587
E-mail vrizak@uzhnu.edu.ua
Nationality Ukrainian
Date of birth 10.07.1963
Gender Male
Desired employment / Occupational field physicist
Websites & social links
https://physics.uz.ua/en/editorial-board/editor-in-chief
http://teib.info/?page_id=3745
Work experience
Dates : From 2002 to present time
Occupation or position held: Head of department of solid-state electronics and information security (until 2017 - Department of solid-state electronics ), Professor
Main activities and responsibilities: Teaching of Semiconductor Physics, of solid-state electronics and information security . Performing independent research in Experimental Physics and Information security . Supervision of research work of students and graduate (PhD) student. Participation in the scientific public life.
Name and address of employer : Uzhhorod National University, Pidhirna Str.46, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Type of business or sector: research and education
Dates: From 1997 to 2002
Occupation or position held: Professor, Department of Semiconductor Physics of Uzhhorod National University,
Main activities and responsibilities: Teaching of Semiconductor Physics. Performing independent research in Experimental Physics.Supervision of research work of students. Participation in the scientific public life.
Name and address of employer: Uzhhorod National University, Pidhirna Str.46, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Type of business or sector: research and education
Dates: From 1994 to 1997
Occupation or position held: Associate Professor, Department of Semiconductor Physics of Uzhhorod National University, Senior Scientific Researcher.
Main activities and responsibilities: Teaching of Semiconductor Physics. Performing independent research in Experimental Physics.Supervision of research work of students. Participation in the scientific public life.
Name and address of employer: Uzhhorod National University, Pidhirna Str.46, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Type of business or sector: research and education
Dates: From 1993 to 1994
Occupation or position held: Lecturer of the Department of Semiconductor Physics, Senior Scientific Researcher
Main activities and responsibilities: Teaching of Semiconductor Physics. Performing independent research in Experimental Physics.Supervision of research work of students.
Name and address of employer: Uzhhorod National University, Pidhirna Str.46, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Type of business or sector: research and education
Dates: From 1992 to 1993
Occupation or position held: Senior Scientific Researcher of Institute of Solids Physics and Chemistry
Main activities and responsibilities: Performing independent research in Experimental Physics and Semiconductor Physics
Name and address of employer: Uzhhorod National University, Pidhirna Str.46, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Type of business or sector: research and education
Dates: From 1991 to 1992
Occupation or position held: Senior Scientific Researcher
Main activities and responsibilities: Performing independent research in Experimental Physics and Semiconductor Physics.
Name and address of employer: Uzhhorod State University, Pidhirna Str.46, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Type of business or sector: research
Dates From 1990 to 1991
Occupation or position held: Scientific Researcher
Main activities and responsibilities: Performing independent research in Experimental Physics and Semiconductor Physics.
Name and address of employer: Uzhhorod State University, Pidhirna Str.46, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Type of business or sector: research
Dates: From 1988 to 1990
Occupation or position held: Junior Scientific Researcher
Main activities and responsibilities: Performing research in Experimental Physics and Semiconductor Physics.
Name and address of employer: Uzhhorod State University, Pidhirna Str.46, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Type of business or sector: research
Dates 1985
Occupation or position held: Engineer of department of semiconductors physics
Main activities and responsibilities: Research in Experimental Physics and Semiconductor Physics
Name and address of employer: Uzhhorod State University, Pidhirna Str.46, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Type of business or sector: Education, research.
Academic Rank and Degree
Dates: 2004
Title of qualification awarded: The honourary title of "Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine" (Decree of the President of Ukraine dated 23 December 2004)
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Physics of condensed systems and information technologies
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Decree of the President of Ukraine.
Dates: 1998
Title of qualification awarded: academic rank of ′′ Professor of Department of Semiconductors Physics ′′(diploma number ПР АР№001716 23 Jun 1998 )
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Performing independent research in Semiconductor Physics
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Attestation Collegium of the Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine.
Dates 1997
Title of qualification awarded: academic rank of ′′Associate Professor of Department of Semiconductors Physics ′′(diploma number ДЦ АР №005427 22 May 1997)
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered : Performing independent research in Semiconductor Physics.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Attestation Collegium of the Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine.
Dates 1996
Title of qualification awarded: academic degree “Doktor of Physical and Mathematical Science”. (D.Sci.) (diploma number ДН № 002908 4 december 1996)
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: The influence of isovalent substitutions on the static and dynamic properties of proper ferroelectrics (PbySn1-y)2P2(SeXS1-X)6
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine
Dates 1989
Title of qualification awarded : academic degree “Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Science”. (Ph. D.) (diploma number ФМ №035710 23 March 1989)
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Ferroelectric properties and mechanisms of phase transitions of crystals Sn(Pb)2P2S(Se)6
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: The Higher Attestation Commission of the USSR
Education and training
Dates From 1985 to 1988
Occupation or position held: graduate (PhD) student of department of semiconductors physics
Main activities and responsibilities: Research in Experimental Physics and Semiconductor Physics
Name and address of employer: Uzhhorod State University, Pidhirna Str.46, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Type of business or sector: Education, research.
Dates 1985
Title of qualification awarded: Physicist. Lecturer of Physics (diploma number KB №792275 21 червня 1985 року )
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Guided scientific research in the Semicondutor Physics
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Uzhhorod State University, Pidhirna Str.46, Uzhhorod, Ukraine Qualification Degree awarded by the Attestation Commission.
Participation in the grant programs
Date From 2022 to present time
Occupation or position held: Coordinator project USAID Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine (USAID/ Cybersecurity) from the UzhNU side
Dates 2023
Occupation or position held: Individual grant ERAZMUS+
Dates 2020-2022
Occupation or position held: Scientific supervisor of grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine “Functional nanostructures based on biomaterials and chalcogenides”.
Dates 2017-2021
Occupation or position held: Scientific supervisor of H2020- project from the UzhNU side „ACCELERATing Europe’s Leading Research Infrastructures”
Dates 2017-2019
Occupation or position held: Scientific supervisor of grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine Nanocomposite film structures with photochromic biomolecules in inorganic and polymer matrices for bioelectronics.
Dates 2015-2016
Occupation or position held: Scientific supervisor of grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Creation and research of nanocomposite materials for pH level biosensors based on purple membranes modified with detergents
Dates 2015-2016
Occupation or position held: Scientific supervisor of Ukrainian-Slovak project from the Ukrainian side “Relaxation and photoinduced effects in chalcogenide glasses of Ge-As-S(Se) system”
Dates 2013-2014
Occupation or position held: Scientific supervisor of grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Development of nanocomposite sensitive elements of biosensors based on bacteriorhodopsin using sol-gel matrices and quantum dots
Dates 2013
Occupation or position held: Individual grant SAIA
Dates 2012 – 2014
Occupation or position held: Senior research of grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine “Research of nanocomposite structures based on photosensitive chalcogenides for plasmonics.
Dates 2009 – 2011
Occupation or position held: Principal investigator of the grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine – “Research of stimulated changes in nanostructured metastable systems and development of functional elements for optoelectronics
Dates 2008-2010
Occupation or position held: Scientific supervisor Project NATO “Сomprehensive concordance heterogeneous telemetric infrastructure with integration of social services ” Reg.No CN.NIG 983259
Dates 2009
Occupation or position held: Individual grant SAIA
Dates 2006-2008
Occupation or position held: Principal investigator of the grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine - Research and development of functional films and nanostructures sensitive to external factors
Dates 2005-2006
Occupation or position held: Scientific supervisor Project NATO “Base infrastructure of Western Branch of Ukrainian Scientific-Practical Medical Network into integration GEANT” Reg.No CN.NIG 981581
Dates 2004-2005
Occupation or position held: Senior Local Expert for the EU Tacis Project “Flood risk assessment and management in Zakarpatska oblast, Ukraine project”
Dates 2004
Occupation or position held: The Hungarian fund of support of a science of name Oron ‘ Yanoshi Academies of sciences of Hungary and the Ministry of Education of Hungary “Development of a measuring complex for an estimation of a condition of river waters of pool of the Tisa of Karpatskogo region” (2004);
Dates 2003-2004
Occupation or position held: Scientific supervisor Project NATO "Necessary additional activities concerning expanding, integration of Transcarpatian science-technical networks."Reg. CN.NIG 979923.
Dates 2003
Occupation or position held: Iindividual grant of Ministry of Education of Slovakia
Dates 2000-2001
Occupation or position held: Scientific supervisor Project NATO "Modernization of the Uzhgorod Universitety and Region Research Institution Network", Reg.No CN.NIG 976326
Dates 1998
Occupation or position held: Iindividual grant of the International Scientific Fund
Membership in Professional Bodies:
Dates 2022
The position: Member of the American Physical Society
Dates 2019
The position: Academician (elected on May 24, 2019, diploma number №574) and Head of the Transcarpathian Branch of the Academy of Technological Sciences of Ukraine,
Dates 2011
The position: Corresponding Member of the Academy of Technological Sciences of Ukraine (elected on May 20, 2011, Diploma No. 448)
Dates 2006
The position: Editor-in-Chief at "Scientific Bulletin of Uzhhorod University. Physics Series" (https://physics.uz.ua/en).
Dates 2003
The position: Foreign member of the Scientific Council of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (elected on November 3, 2003)
Dates 2003
The position: Academician (elected on May 30, 2003, Diploma No223) of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Ukraine
Dates 2003
The position: Corresponding Member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Ukraine (elected on March 28, 2003, Diploma No. 094)
Dates 2001
The position: Founder and director of the Public Organization "FUND FOR SUPPORT OF SCIENCE OF TRANSCARPATHIA"
Dates 1998
The position: Member since 1998 of the Ukrainian Physical Society. and since 2010 – heads the Transcarpathian branch of the Ukrainian Physical Society.
Personal skills and competences
Mother tongue(s): Ukrainian
Other language(s): Russian, English, Slovak
Social skills and competences: Good ability to research team work. Good ability to adapt to multicultural environments. Experience of University teaching. Reresearch work experience
Organisational skills and competences: Experience in scientific research project managing.
Technical skills and competences: Long expertise in experimental studies of complex systems. Experience in written and oral presentation of scientific results.
Computer skills and competences: Experience with Basic Computer Skills - MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint) , Google Drive (Docs, Drive, Forms, Gmail), Spreadsheets (Excel, Google Drive, Open Office), Email ( Outlook, Gmail), Operating systems (MacOS, Microsoft Windows); Internet Tools - Social media (LinkedIn, YouTube), Blogging (Wordpress), Team collaboration (Dropbox, Zoom, GoToMeeting, GoogleMeeting, Skype), as well as with software for processing experimental data and quantum-mechanical calculations of static and dynamic properties of condensed systems
Additional information: h-index=9(Scopus) and 10 (WOS), 59 papers in international journals, indexed in Scopus database, 352 citations; 3 patents, 2 monographs, 35 training manuals and methodological developments in Ukrainian, more than 100 oral or poster presentations at international conferences.
Profile authenticators
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9177-0662
https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?user=TU_IR1gAAAAJ&hl=ru
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603807720