Malchenko Svitlana, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor of Astrophysics and methodics of teaching astronomy, Department of Phisycs, Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine

Svitlana Malchenko, born in 1981, defended dissertation "Be-stars of spectral class B0-B3 in young open stellar clusters" for the degree of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences (Dr. phil.), specialty 01.03.02 Astrophysics, radio astronomy at the I. I. Mechnikova Odesa National University, Ukraine, in 2010. Since 2009, she has been working in the field of astrophysics and method of teaching astronomy at the Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, where she is currently associate Professor. Her research interests include such as spectroscopy of Be and binary stars also as the problems of teaching astronomy in terms of inclusive education. She has published a number of papers in international journals.