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Education
1995-1999 – Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs named after E.O. Didorenko (Luhansk, Ukraine), Master of Law;
2010-2013 – National Academy of Internal Affairs (Kyiv, Ukraine) Doctor of Law.

Academic status
Doctor of Law (Diploma of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine ДД No. 002443, October 10, 2013)
Professor (Diploma of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine 12ПР No. 009535, May 16, 2014)

Professional positions held
From March 21, 2023 – Professor of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Lviv State University of Internal Affairs
From October 5, 2022 – Chief Researcher of the Department of Criminal Law Research (0.5 rates, external part–time) at the Scientific Research Institute for the Study of Crime Problems named after Academician V.V. Stashis of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
From September 1, 2023 – Guest Lecturer of School of Law of Ukrainian Catholic University (part-time)

January 19, 2023 – March 20, 2023– Professor of the Department of Criminal Law Disciplines at Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs named after E.O. Didorenko

November 26, 2018 – January 18,2023 – the First Vice–Rector at Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs named after E. O. Didorenko

July 26, 2018 – November 15, 2018 – Senior Investigator of the department of investigation of crimes in the field of economic and official activities of the investigative department at the State Police of the National Police in Luhansk oblast

May 5, 2018 – July 27, 2018 – Senior Inspector of the Department of Forensic Support of the Investigative Department at the State Police of the Luhansk oblast

October 28, 2013 – May 4, 2018 – Vice–Rector at Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs named after E.O. Didorenko. Administration of higher educational institution, organization of learning process and scientific research in the field of law, large-scale implementation of distance learning technologies (technical and organizational solutions), successful crisis management of the educational institution in the conditions of resettlement caused by Russian Federation aggression.

May 17, 2013 – October 28, 2013 – Professor of the Department of Criminal Law at Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs named after E.O. Didorenko

June 1, 2010 – May 16, 2013 – Doctoral Student of the Doctoral and Adjunct Studies at the National Academy of Internal Affairs. Preparing and successful defense of Doctor of Judicial Sciences thesis (Criminally-Legal Protection of Information Security of Ukraine); developing of information system “Cybercrimes” and implementation of it into the system of special education of Department of Cybercrimes of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

March 2005 – June 2010. Dean of Faculty of Criminal Militia of Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs named after E.O. Didorenko (Luhansk, Ukraine). Administration of higher educational institution division, organization of educative process, developing and implementing a rating system for students.

May 2003 – February 2005. Assistant Professor of Department of Criminal Law of Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs named after E.O. Didorenko (Luhansk, Ukraine). The teaching of course “Criminal Law.” Developing e-handbook “Criminal Law of Ukraine” (second prize in the annual competition of handbooks of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine), implementation of lectures with presentations to the educational process.

October 2001 – May 2003. Assistant of Department of Criminal Law of Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs named after E.O. Didorenko (Luhansk, Ukraine). Teaching criminally legal courses, preparing methodical materials for cadets and students, preparing and successful defense of Philosophy Doctor in Law thesis (Criminal responsibility for illegal interference into the computers` engineering work and the computer nets).

August 1999 – October 2001. Research assistant of Scientific Department of Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs named after E.O. Didirenko (Luhansk, Ukraine). Preparing of report and planning documentation, preparing analytic reports, organization of implementation to educative process results of scientific researches of University staff.

Other professional activities
2017 – the first in Ukraine distance professional development of national police investigators (about 300 investigators);
2015-2020 – Work on the grant program of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine – RLHR Program / Promoting Rule of Law and Human Rights in Legislative Practice, creation in cooperation with the educational resource Combatcyber.org and conducting distance learning courses “Countering Cyberterrorism,” “Blockchain and Bitcoin: what is it and how does it work?”,”Work 2.0. Organization of joint activities with the help of information technology”.

Community service
2016-present – “Internet lesson of Law,” association in the virtual space of graduating students to discuss current issues of jurisprudence (every year since 2016, in 2019 – about 2.5K participants from Luhansk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, and Zakarpattia oblasts);
2020 – quarantine organization, together with the Luhansk Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education, an online course for teachers of the Luhansk oblast on the organization of distance learning (667 teachers registered for the course, received certificates 173).

Informal education
2020 – University of California, Davis & Coursera – specialization «Computational Social Science», which includes coursers «Computational Social Science Methods», «Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics», «Social Network Analysis», «Computer Simulations»
2021 – Johns Hopkins University & Coursera – coursers «The Data Scientist’s Toolbox», «R Programming», «Getting and Cleaning Data», «Exploratory Data Analysis», «Reproducible Research»
2021 – EU Agency for Law Enforcement Training program 030/2021/res Darkweb and Cryptocurrencies – Basics