DSc., Professor Yuriy Vynnykov, Acting Director of Educational and Research Institute of Oil and Gas, professor of the Department of Oil and Gas Engineering and Technology, National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic», Poltava, Ukraine

Yuriy Vynnykov, born in 1963, defence the Thesis of PhD in 1990 and defence the Thesis «Simulation of Soil Compaction Processes in Axissymmetrical Stress-strain State of Bases» for the Scientific Degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences (ScD), specialty «Bases and Foundations», in Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture in 2005. Member of ISSMGE, IGS. Main directions of scientific work: mechanics of rocks and soils, investigation, calculation, design of foundation and base, arranged without soil excavation, especially with implementation of numerical and probabilistic methods, calculation and design of foundation and base of objects of oil, gas and mining complexes, Code development. Author 15 monographs, 3 textbooks, 10 schoolbooks, 15 Codes; 200 articles, 45 patents to inventions, scientific teacher of 12 PhD. Took part in 18th ICSMGE (Paris) in 2013 and 19th (Seoul) in 2017. Member of editorial boards of Web of Science – Electronic Journal of Civil Engineering Osijek, e-GFOS (http://e-gfos.gfos.hr/egfos), Croatia.

E-mail: vynnykov@ukr.net