Main research areas

Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology

  1. Molecular mechanisms of organisms’ adaptation to environmental stresses;
  2. Mechanisms of action of xenobiotics;
  3. Regulation of gene expression in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells;
  4. Developmental biochemistry;
  5. Signal transduction, growth control and cell cycle;
  6. Nonenzymatic processes in vivo (free radical oxidation and glycation)
  7. Molecular mechanisms of aging and anti-aging interventions;
  8. Nutrition and regulation of metabolism;
  9. Molecular mechanisms of metabolic and other disturbances or pathologies.

Department of Materials Science and New Technologies

  1. Mechanics. Optics;
  2. Physics and chemistry of  surface;
  3. Spectral study of solids;
  4. Fundamentals of Optoelectronics;
  5. Materials of electronic equipment;
  6. Diffraction methods for the investigation of solids;
  7. Physical methods of research;
  8. Biophysics;
  9. Basics of crystallography;
  10. Physics of nanomaterials.

Department of Physics and Chemistry of Solids

  1. Nanosystems  based on semiconductor materials of the chalcogenides of metals of ІІ and ІV subgroups;
  2. Dynamical and kinetic properties in low-dimensional semiconductor systems;
  3. Quasichemical description of point defects in II-VI and IV-VI compounds;
  4. Carrier scattering and thermoelectric properties optimization in thin films based on lead chalcogenides;
  5. Point defects, structure, energy and electrical properties of IV-VI compounds;
  6. Thermoelectric properties of bulk and thin film based on IV-VI compounds;
  7.  Photovoltaic properties of thin films heterosystems (based of II-VI materials).

Department of Biology and Ecology

  1. Botany (floristics, phytocenology,  population biology of plants, phytomorphology, dendrology);
  2. Zoology (entomology, population biology of animals);
  3. Ecology (protected area, ecosystems, bioindication);
  4. Cytogenetics and plant physiology;
  5. Scientific research is devoted to the study of biota and ecological condition of natural and anthropogenically disturbed territories of the Ukrainian Carpathians, Precarpathians, Opillya and Pokuttya.

Department of Mathematical and Functional Analysis

  1. Analytic mappings of Banach spaces, algebras of analytic functions on Banach spaces;
  2. Random processes (diffusive, stable), potential theory for pseudo-differential equations, applied statistical analysis;
  3. Analytical theory of continuous and branched chain fractions and their application;
  4. Functional calculus in the classes of polynomial distributions and analytical functions;
  5. Systems of Kolmogorov type in Lp
  6. Functional calculus for generators of strongly continuous multisemigroups of operators in convolutional algebras of generalized functions and ultradistributions;
  7. Linearization of nonlinear mappings on topological vector spaces;
  8. Theorems on the normal marginal distribution of the number of false solutions of the system of nonlinear random equations in the field GF(2);
  9. Block-symmetric analytic functions of limited type on banana spaces;
  10. Spectral theory of generalized Hermitian Jacobian operators;
  11. Analysis on spectra of algebras of analytic and smooth functions in Banach space.