Associate Professor at the Department of General Linguistics and Slavic Languages, Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Candidate of Philological Sciences. Candidate's dissertation  - 2001; author of a monograph, more than one hundred scientific articles; member of the editorial board of Scientific Notes of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University. Series: Linguistics; member of the scientific-methodical commission of the 4th sector of the higher education in the humanities and theology. Subcommittee 035.Philology; Member of the Ukrainian onomastic commission of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; active participant in international and All-Ukrainian conferences on onomastics. Research interests: lexicology, onomastics (including anthroponymy, pragmatonymy).