Olena S. Voloshkina

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Labor Protection and Environment of Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUBA)
Contact
Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, 31, Vozduchoflotskiy Prospectus, Kyiv, 03037, Ukraine
Phone: +38(044)2454844, +38(050)3840640
E-mail: e.voloshki@gmail.com, voloshkina.os@knuba.edu.ua
Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture
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Education
2004 – Doctor of Technical Sciences, the specialty is environmental safety, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
1986 – Ph.D., the specialty is agricultural land reclamation, Ukrainian Institute of Water Supply and amelioration of Agrarian Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
1977 – Ms. Sci. with Highest Honors, Engineer-Hydrotechnic, Moscow University of Construction and Architecture
Professional appointments
1977–1981: worked on the expedition of the Lengidroproject in the Krasnoyarsk Territory;
1982–1993: at the Institute of Hydrotechnics and Reclamation of the UNU;
1993–2000: Scientific Secretary, Deputy Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute for Water and Environmental Issues;
2001–2004: Scientific Secretary of the National Security and Defense Institute of the National Security and Defense Council;
Since 2004 – Professor of the Department of Occupational and Environmental Protection;
2007–2015: Dean of the Faculty of Sanitary Engineering (since September 2014, the Faculty was renamed the "Faculty of Engineering Systems and Ecology");
2015–2021: Head of the Department of Occupational Safety and the environment of the Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture;
2021 to date: professor of the Department of Occupational Safety and the environment of the Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture.
Key qualifications
- System analysis and validity of ways of problem solutions in ecological safety;
- The forecasts and assessment, creation of geo-information analytical systems of support of the administrative decisions for preparation of suggestions concerning introduction in Ukraine of the international standards and best foreign experience for questions of water safety;
- Organization and management of environmental activities;
- Impact of climate change on major life-sustaining resources;
- Influence of processes of natural-technogenic flooding of territories on their ecological safety;
- Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the construction industry.
Experience with projects financed by international organisations
1997–1999: “Admissible Loadings on Belarus-Ukraine Transboundary Rivers and Sustainable Development (The Research Support Scheme (RSS) of the Ohen Society Institute/Higher Education Support Programme (OSI/HESP).
1997–2000: Tacis, CBC Programme: Bug and Latorica/Urh. Transboundary Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment.
2001–2002: Royal University (Sweden) – Polotsk University (Belarus) – Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Ukraine). Sustainable Development of education.
2023–2024: Project Erasmus+ «Multilevel Local, Nation- and Regionwide Education and Training in Climate Services, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation [ClimEd]», 619285-EPP-1-2020-1-FI-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP