• crystal structure of aluminides, silicides and germanides of rare earth metals

Co-author of a textbook, 37 scientific articles, 65 abstracts presented at different conferences, two bibliografic handbooks and 12 articles about the Lviv School of Crystal Chemistry and its representatives, Department of Inorganic Chemistry.

Svitlana Pukas was born on September 11, 1980 in the village of Uhryniv, Sokal district, Lviv region. In 2002 she graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv with a degree in Chemistry and received the qualification of “Chemist. Teacher”. In 2002-2017 she was a laboratory assistant, junior researcher, researcher, senior researcher, and since 2017 – associate professor of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

In 2008 she defended her PhD thesis “Crystal structure of metallides based on the Gd and Er disilicides and digermanides and p-elements of the group III” at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

She teaches a lecture and laboratory course in the disciplines “Applied Crystal Chemistry” and “Calculation Methods in Chemistry and Materials Science”, as well as a laboratory course in the disciplines “Crystal Chemistry”, “Computer Science and Programming” and “Methods to Determine Crystal Structures” (Faculty of Chemistry), as well as “Inorganic Chemistry” (Faculty of Biology) and “Chemistry” (Faculty of Geography).

She is the executor of research state budget projects as well as grant projects within the international cooperation between Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and Company “Material Phases Data System” (MPDS, Vitznau, Switzerland, 2002-2005, 2014-2020), International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD Grant-in-Aid, Pennsylvania, USA, 2006-2020), W. Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Wroclaw, Poland, 2009-2010).

Co-author of 117 publications. She had internships at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland), Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (Lublin, Poland) and the University of Vienna (Austria); received grants to participate in international conferences.

In 2012 she became a Laureate of the Parliament of Ukraine for the most talented young scientists in the field of the fundamental and applied research and scientific-technical development in 2012 for the cycle of scientific works “Crystal chemistry analysis as a basis for the search of new inorganic compounds” (P. Demchenko, K. Miliyanchuk, S. Pukas, Ya. Tokaychuk).

Member of the organizing committees of the X-XIV International Conference on Crystal Chemistry of Intermetallic Compounds (Lviv, 2007-2019), I-VII School of Young Scientists “Diffraction Methods …” (Lviv, 2011-2019), Seminar, dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the birth of Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor of Lviv University Evgen Gladyshevskii (Lviv, 2019) and the All-Ukrainian Contest of Young Researchers “Crystals” named after Evgen Gladyshevskii (Lviv, 2017-2020). Member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.

Prize of the Parliament of Ukraine for the most talented young scientists in the field of the fundamental and applied research and scientific-technical development in 2012.

Acknowledgment of the Lviv Regional Council for a significant personal contribution to the development of national education and science (2016).

Lecture courses:

• “Calculation Methods in Chemistry and Materials Science” for students of the educational degree “Bachelor” of the Faculty of Chemistry;
• “Applied Crystal Chemistry” for students of the educational degree “Master” (educational-professional and educational-scientific programs) of the Faculty of Chemistry.

Co-author of the textbook: R.E. Gladyshevskii, S.Ya. Pukas. Applied Crystal Chemistry. Workshop. Third edition, supplemented. Lviv: Dipiai LLC. 2016. 100 p.

Developer of the curriculum and work program of the elective discpline “Calculation Methods in Chemistry and Materials Science” for students of the educational degree “Bachelor” in the specialty 102 Chemistry together with a corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, Professor R.E. Gladyshevskii.

Educational and methodical materials of both courses are placed in the system of distance learning of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Moodle platform).

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