Editor-in-Chief

EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLES:

In 2004, she graduated from the Zhytomyr National Agroecological University, majoring in Ecology and Environmental Protection. On September 23, 2009, she defended her thesis for the degree of Candidate of Agricultural Sciences with the speciality Ecology.

Dissertation topic: "Biological treatment of wastewater of various origins." The Department of Forest Ecology and Land Reclamation awarded her the title of associate professor in March 2013. She defended her dissertation to obtain the scientific degree of Doctor of Agricultural Sciences in the speciality of Ecology on June 8, 2018.

EXPERIENCE:

From 2018 to the present, TF has been the head of the educational and scientific centre for agriculture, the environment, and the bioeconomy at Polissia National University.

TF has been working as a part-time professor in the Department of Ecology at Polissia National University since 2021.

From 2019 to the present, I have been a senior researcher in the physical geography and radioecology laboratories of the Chernobyl radiation-ecological biosphere reserve.

From 2005 to 2021, I held positions as an assistant, senior lecturer, associate professor, and professor in the Department of Forest Ecology and Life Safety at the Zhytomyr National Agroecological University.

ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

• A Member of the Scientific Committee of the National Council of Ukraine for the Development of Science and Technology (Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 811-r dated 15.09.2023);

• A Member of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine (Order of the Ministry of Environment No. 408 dated 12.06.2023);

• A Member of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve;

• Scientific Curator of the Drevlyansky Nature Reserve;

• Member of the Scientific and Technical Council of the State Agency for the Management of the Exclusion Zone (Order of the State Agency for the Management of the Exclusion Zone No. 179-23 dated 4.10.2023);

• Expert of the National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education in the specialities "Ecology and Environmental Protection", "Forestry", "Agronomy";

• Expert of the Scientific Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for the examination of projects of scientific works of young scientists of section 4 "New technologies of environmentally safe production and construction, environmental protection, extraction and processing of minerals, chemical processes and substances in ecology";

• Deputy editor-in-chief of the scientific journal "Scientific Horizons" (ISSN: 2663-2144, e-ISSN: 2709-8877) Scopus;

• A member of the editorial board of the scientific journal "Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources" (ISSN: 2581-6853). Web of Science;

• A member of the Centre for Ukrainian-European Scientific Cooperation;

• Expert of the Committee on Education, Science and Sustainable Development under the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine Committee on Education, Science and Sustainable Development;

• Expert of the Committee on Nature Reserve Fund, Econetwork and Biodiversity Conservation;

• Expert of the Committee on Climate Change and Ozone Layer Protection under the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine;

• Expert of the Committee on Environmental Assessment and Environmental Impact Assessment under the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY:

• 2024-2027 - Project 101084084 - AGROSUS (Call: CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-02-01-two-stage): AGROecological strategies for SUSTAINABLE weed management in key European crops. Funding organisation: Horizon Europe Framework Program (HORIZON) (country leader) https://agrosus.eu/

• 2024-2027 – Project 101191240 – POLIDIH (Call: DIGITAL-2023-EDIH-04-ASSOCIATED) Funding organisation: EU funding programme: The Digital Europe Program (DIGITAL) (project coordinator) http://polidih.com.ua/

• Head of the National Contact Point of the Horizon Europe programme, Cluster 6 “Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment”, sub-programmes “Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness” https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/myarea/ncpmanagement

• A pilot project to train women farmers on progressive crop production principles. Funding organization: JICA, Japan, 2023-2024, https://polissiauniver.edu.ua/jica / (executor)

• 2024-2026 – Horizon 2020: Geoinformation support for the transition to organic agriculture (project manager) (at the expense of the external assistance instrument of the European Union to fulfill Ukraine's obligations in the Framework Programme of the European Union for Research and Innovation "Horizon 2020") (project manager)

• 2023-2024 – Horizon 2020: Creation of a software and hardware complex for geospatial data management, (at the expense of the external assistance instrument of the European Union to fulfill Ukraine's obligations in the Framework Programme of the European Union for Research and Innovation "Horizon 2020") (project executor)

• DAAD program of the German Academic Exchange Service, 2020 (participant)

• DAAD program “Tschernobyl heute: wilde Natur ohne Grenzen”, German Academic Exchange Service, 2021, http://sommerschule.znau.edu.ua/ (coordinator).

AWARDS AND HONORS:

• 2022 – Award of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to young scientists for the work "Modelling of spatio-temporal variation of production potential and biodiversity of agrolandscapes of the Polish and Forest-Steppe zones of Ukraine" (Decision of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No. 2833-IX dated 13.12.2022).

• 2021 – Certificate of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for services to the Ukrainian people (Decree of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada No. 739K dated September 7, 2021).

• 2022 – Certificate of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated October 14, 2022 No. 263-k) for initiative and perseverance, high professionalism, conscientious performance of official duties and significant personal contribution to the development of the field of education and sciences of Ukraine.

• 2018 – Certificate of the mayor for a significant contribution to the scientific activity of the city of Zhytomyr,

• 2018–2020 – Grant of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for young scientists.

PUBLICATIONS:

Monographs:

• Space and geo-information support for decision-making in key areas of national security and defense of Ukraine: monograph / O. V. Skydan, Yu. G. Danyk, T. P. Fedonyuk and others. ; under the editorship O. V. Skydana. Zhytomyr: Polish National University, 2022. 354 p.

• Ecological features and structure of Cyanoprokaryota communities of northwestern Azov: monograph / L. I. Arabadzhi-Tipenko, O. V. Zhukov; in general ed. Professor T. P. Fedonyuk. Polish national university. Zhytomyr, 2021, 231 p.

• Phenology of fish spawning in the middle reaches of the Dnipro River: monograph (2022). Edited by Prof. Fedonyuk T. P.: Dnipro, Department of Dnipro National University named after Oles Honchar. 182 p.

• Fedoniuk T. P., Fedoniuk R. G. Methodological aspects of evaluaiting the toxicologic effect on the macrophyte flora of the resorvoirs of Ukrainian Polyssya // Scientific Achievement of Countries of Uerope in the Field of Natural Science: collective monograph. Riga : Izdevnieciba «Baltia Publishing», 2018. P.118-132.

• Fedonyuk T. P., Pazich V. M., Fedonyuk R. G., Petruk A. A. Cross-border cooperation in the implementation of European water resources safety standards: EU agricultural policy: challenges and prospects: collective monograph. Kyiv: TsUL. 2019. P. 466-475.

• Romanchuk L. D., Zinchenko V. O., Vasylyuk T. P. Peculiarities of growing energy crops in the conditions of Polissia of Ukraine. Prospects for the development of alternative energy in the Policy of Ukraine: monograph / V. O. Dubrovin and others. Kyiv: Center for Educational Literature, 2014. 335 p.

• Assessment of the quality of life and radiation safety of the rural population of radioactively contaminated territories: monograph / L. D. Romanchuk, T. P. Fedonyuk, V. A. Dovzhenko, L. B. Borysyuk. Zhytomyr: Graphium, 2017. 297 p.

• Romanchuk L. D., Fedonyuk T. P., Fedonyuk R. G. Methodology of the application of species-based calculations in the assessment of the state of water ecosystems of the Polissia of Ukraine // Rational use of resources in the conditions of ecologically stable territories: monograph. Poltava: PDAA, 2017. P. 167-176

Main scientific articles in publications:

• Fedoniuk, T. P., Pyvovar, P. V., Topolnytskyi, P. P., Rozhkov, O. O., Kravchuk, M. M., Skydan, O. V., ... & Petruk, T. V. (2025). Utilizing Remote Sensing Data to Ascertain Weed Infestation Levels in Maize Fields. Agriculture, 15(7), 711.

• Melnychuk, T., Fedoniuk, T., Pyvovar, P., Topolnytskyi, P., & Vishnevskiy, D. (2025). Przewalski’s horse distribution analysis using geospatial data within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone habitats. Scientific Horizons, 28(2), 170-183. doi: 10.48077/scihor2.2025.170

• Sánchez-Moreiras, A. M., Vieites-Álvarez, Y., Calviño, D. F., Campillo, C., Gonzalez-de-Santos, P., Silva, T. R., ... & Piron, L. (2024). Estrategias agroecológicas para el manejo sostenible de malas hierbas en cultivos europeos de relevancia económica (AGROSUS). Revista de Ciências Agrárias, 47(1), 107-112.

• Melnychuk, T., Korepanova, K., Fedoniuk, T., & Zymaroieva, A. (2024). Geospatial applications as an integral component of wildlife monitoring in the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve. Biosystems Diversity, 32(1), 127–134. doi:10.15421/012412

• Zymaroieva, A., Kolomiychuk, V., Fedoniuk, T., Goncharenko, I., Borsuk, O., Melnychuk, T., & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Post-fire recovery of vegetation in the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve. International Journal of Environmental Studies, 81(1), 489-509. doi: 10.1080/00207233.2023.2287345

• Fedoniuk, T. ., Zhuravel, S. ., Kravchuk, M. ., Pazych, V. ., & Bezvershuck, I. . (2024). Historical sketch and current state of weed diversity in continental zone of Ukraine. Agriculture and Natural Resources, 58(5), 631–642. https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/anres/article/view/266212

• Fedoniuk T. P., Skydan O. V., Melnychuk T. V., Zymaroieva A. A., Pazych V. M. GIS-Based Landscape Management of the Uzh River Basin: A Strategy to Enhance River Water Quality. Space Science and Technology. 2023. 29, № 4 (143). P. 43—66. doi: 10.15407/knit2023.04.043

• Orlov, O., Danylyk, I., Zhukovskyi, O., Budzhak, V., Fedoniuk, T., Borodavka, V., & Borodavka, О. (2023). Viscum album subsp. austriacum (Santalaceae R. Br.) in Volyn Polissia and Zhytomyr Polissia (Ukraine): current distribution, ecology and prediction of future spread. Studia Biologica, 17(3), 139-166. DOI:10.30970/sbi.1703.722

• Fedoniuk, T., Bog, M., Orlov, O., & Appenroth, K. J. (2022). Lemna equinoctialis migrates further into temperate continental Europe—A new alien aquatic plant for Ukraine. Feddes Repertorium, doi:10.1002/fedr.202200001

• Zymaroieva, A., Zhukov, O., Fedoniuk, T., & Svenning, J. -. (2022). Strong decline in breeding-bird community abundance throughout habitats in the azov region (southeastern ukraine) linked to land-use intensification and climate. Diversity, 14(12) doi:10.3390/d14121028

• Skydan, O., Fedoniuk, T., Mozharovskii, О., Zhukov, О., Zymaroieva, A., Pazych, V., Hurelia, V., Melnychuk, T. 2022. Monitoring tree mortality in Ukrainian Pinus sylvestris L. forests using remote sensing data from earth observing satellites. Annals of Forest Research DOI:10.15287/afr.2022.2328

• Fedoniuk T. P., Skydan О. V. Incorporating geographic information technologies into a framework for biologi- cal diversity conservation and preventing biological threats of landscapes. Space Science and Technology. 2023. 29, No 2 (141). P. 10—21. doi:10.15407/knit2023.02.010

• Fedoniuk T. P., Skydan O. V., Melnychuk T. V., Zymaroieva A. A., Pazych V. M. GIS-Based Landscape Manage- ment of the Uzh River Basin: A Strategy to Enhance River Water Quality. Space Science and Technology. 2023. 29, No 4 (143). P. 43—66. doi:10.15407/knit2023.04.043

• Pinkina, T., Zymaroieva, A., & Fedoniuk, T. (2022). Cadmium impact on the growth and survival rate of great pond snail (lymnaea stagnalis) in the chronic experiment. Biologia, 77(3), 749-756. doi:10.1007/s11756-022-01015-9

• Skydan, O. V., Dankevych, V. Y., Fedoniuk, T. P., Dankevych, Y. M., & Yaremova, M. I. (2022). European green deal: Experience of food safety for ukraine. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(2), 63-71. doi:10.21833/IJAAS.2022.02.007

• Pinkina, T., Zymaroieva, A., Fedoniuk, T., & Pazych, V. (2022). The growth characteristics and survival rates of great pond snail ( lymnaea stagnalis L.) juvenile under the heavy metal impact. Paper presented at the IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1049(1) doi:10.1088/1755-1315/1049/1/012074

• Zymaroieva, A., Fedoniuk, T., Matkovska, S., Pinkin, A., & Melnychuk, T. (2022). Analysis of the spatio-temporal trend of sugar beet yield in polissya and forest steppe ecoregions within ukraine. Paper presented at the IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1049(1) doi:10.1088/1755-1315/1049/1/012073

• Fedonyuk, T. P., Galushchenko, O. M., Melnichuk, T. V., Zhukov, O. V., Vishnevskiy, D. O., Zymaroieva, A. A., & Hurelia, V. V. (2020). Prospects and main aspects of the GIS-technologies application for monitoring of biodiversity (on the example of the Chornobyl Radiation-Ecological Biosphere Reserve). Space Science and Technology, 26(6). 075-093 doi:10.15407/knit2020.06.075, http://space-scitechjournal.org.ua/en/archive/2020/6/05  (Web of Science)

• Zymaroieva, A., Fedoniuk, T., Matkovska, S., Andreieva, O. and Pazych, V.(2021). Agroecological Determinants of Potato Spatiotemporal Yield Variation at the Landscape Level in the Central and Northern Ukraine. Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 4(2): 34-47. Doi: doi: 10.33002/nr2581.6853.040203

• Romanchuk, L., Fedonyuk, T., Pazych, V., Fedonyuk, R., Khant, G., & Petruk, A. (2018). Assessment of the stability of aquatic ecosystems development on the basis of indicators of the macrophytes fluctuating asymmetry. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 4(10-94), 54-61. doi:10.15587/1729-4061.2018.141055

• Zymaroieva, A., Zhukov, O., Fedonyuk, T., & Pinkin, A. (2019). Application of geographically weighted principal components analysis based on soybean yield spatial variation for agro-ecological zoning of the territory. Agronomy Research, 17(6), 2460-2473. doi:10.15159/AR.19.208

• Fedonyuk, R., & Fedonyuk, T. (2019). Aerotechnogenic pollution of agricultural landscapes by inorganic dust on the example of zhytomyr eastern industrial hub. Scientific Horizons, (1), 52-62. doi:10.332491/2663-2144-2019-74-1-52-62

• Fedoniuk, T. P., Fedoniuk, R. H., Romanchuk, L. D., Petruk, A. A., & Pazych, V. M. (2019). The influence of landscape structure on the quality index of surface waters. Journal of Water and Land Development, 43(1), 56-63. doi:10.2478/jwld-2019-0063

• Fedoniuk, R. H., Fedoniuk, T. P., Zimaroieva, A. A., Pazych, V. M., & Zubova, O. V. (2020). Impact of air born technogenic pollution on agricultural soils depending on prevailing winds in polissya region (NW ukraine). Ecological Questions, 31(1), 69-85. doi:10.12775/EQ.2020.007

• Zymaroieva, A., Zhukov, O., Fedonyuk, T., & Pinkina, T. (2020). The spatio-temporal trend of rapeseed yields in ukraine as a marker of agro-economic factors influence. Agronomy Research, 18 (Special Issue 2), 1584-1596. doi:10.15159/AR.20.119

• Fedonyuk, T. P., Fedoniuk, R. H., Zymaroieva, A. A., Pazych, V. M., & Aristarkhova, E. O. (2020). Phytocenological approach in biomonitoring of the state of aquatic ecosystems in ukrainian polesie. Journal of Water and Land Development, 44, 65-74. doi:10.24425/jwld.2019.127047

• Zymaroieva, A., Zhukov, O., Fedoniuk, T., Pinkina, T., & Vlasiuk, V. (2021). Edaphoclimatic factors determining sunflower yields spatiotemporal dynamics in northern ukraine. OCL – Oilseeds and Fats, Crops and Lipids, 28 doi:10.1051/ocl/2021013

• Orlov , O. O. , Fedoniuk , T. P. , Iakushenko , D. M. , Danylyk , I. M. , Kish , R. Y. , Zymaroieva , A. А., & Khant , G. А. (2021). Distribution and ecological growth conditions of Utricularia australis R. br. in Ukraine. Journal of Water and Land Development, 48(1-3), 32-47. doi:10.24425/jwld.2021.136144

• Aristarkhova, E. O., Fedoniuk, T. P., Romanchuk, L. D., Latushynskyi, S. V., & Kot, I. V. (2021). Features of the surface water oxygen regime in the ukrainian polesie region. Journal of Water and Land Development, 49, 104. doi:10.24425/jwld.2021.137102

• Fedoniuk, T., Borsuk, O., Melnychuk, T., Zymaroieva, A., & Pazych, V. (2021). Assessment of the consequences of forest fires in 2020 on the territory of the Chernobyl radiation and ecological biosphere reserve. [Assessment of the consequences of forest fires in 2020 on the territory of the Chernobyl radiation-ecological biosphere reserve] Scientific Horizons, 24(8), 26-36. doi:10.48077/scihor.24(8).2021.26-36

• Fedoniuk, T., Fedoniuk, R., Klymenko, T., Polishchuk, O., & Pitsil, A. (2021). Bioindication of aerotechnogenic pollution of agricultural landscapes caused by the activities of industrial hubs. Ekologia Bratislava, 40(2), 115-123. doi:10.2478/eko-2021-0013 

• Zymaroieva, A., Zhukov, O., Fedoniuk, T., Pinkina, T., & Hurelia, V. (2021). The relationship between landscape diversity and crops productivity: Landscape scale study. Journal of Landscape Ecology (Czech Republic), 14(1), 39-58. doi:10.2478/jlecol-2021-0003

• Fedoniuk, T. P., Zymaroieva, A. A., Pazych, V. M., & Petruk, A. A. (2021). Influence of landscape organization on surface-water quality forming on an example of ustya river basin (Ukraine). Ecologia Balkanica, 13(2), 1-21. http://web.uni-plovdiv.bg/mollov/EB/2021_vol13_iss2/001-021_eb.21117.pdf (Scopus).

• Skydan, O. V., Fedoniuk, T. P., Pyvovar, P. V., Dankevych, V. Y., & Dankevych, Y. M. (2021). LANDSCAPE FIRE SAFETY MANAGEMENT: THE EXPERIENCE OF UKRAINE AND THE EU. News of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Series of Geology and Technical Sciences, 6(450), 125-132. doi:10.32014/2021.2518-170X.128

Patents:

• Station for Receiving Information from Space Apparatus for Remote Sensing of the Earth. Utility model patent No. 158094 (application No. u202400885), published 1 January 2025 Terminated Inventors: Oleh V. Skydan, Petro V. Pyvovar, Pavlo P. Topolnytskyi and 4 others. Owner: Polissia National University (UA) URL: https://iprop-ua.com/inv/3tjnh0sz/.

Materials of international congresses and conferences published:

• Fedoniuk T.P., Skydan O., Fedonyuk R. Methodology of toxicological effects assestment in aquatic ecosystems by biodiversity indicators use.Rural Development : Proceedings of the 9th International Scientific Conference. 2019. http://doi.org/10.15544/RD.2019.025.

Main scientific and methodical publications:

• Methodical guidelines for carrying out laboratory experimens on Biology / L. Romanchuck, T. Fedonuk, V. Pazych, I. Pazych. Tbilisi : Publishing house pedagogy, 2017.

• Recommendations for the biological monitoring of surface and underground water sources for drinking water supply and fisheries purposes / E. O. Aristarkhova et al. Zhytomyr: Graphium, 2016.

• Radiation monitoring of soils and plant products on homesteads of residents of Polissia of Zhytomyr region in the remote period after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant / Yu. V. Kovalchuk et al. Zhytomyr: Graphium, 2016.

• Recommendations for the use of Eichhornia crassipes (Mart) Solms and Pistia stratiotes L. in phytoremediation of water bodies in Zhytomyr region: method. recommendations / L. D. Romanchuk, T. P. Vasylyuk, V. M. Pazich, S. P. Sirenkyi. Zhytomyr: Grafium, 2014.

• Recommendations for the use of higher aquatic vegetation in the treatment of domestic wastewater: method. recommendations / L. D. Romanchuk, T. P. Vasylyuk, V. M. Pazich, S. P. Sirenkyi. Zhytomyr: Grafium, 2014.

• Romanchuk L. D., Vasylyuk T. P., Pazich V. M. Recommendations regarding the prospects of using hydrophytic wastewater treatment in Zhytomyr Oblast: method. recommendations Zhytomyr: Graphium, 2015.

• Romanchuk L. D., Fedonyuk T. P., Pazich V. M. Recommendations for the use of higher aquatic vegetation in the treatment of domestic wastewater: method. recommendations Zhytomyr: ZhNAEU, 2013.

• Strategy of implementation of GIS technologies in the production activity of the Chernobyl radiation-ecological biosphere reserve / O. V. Skidan, T. P. Fedonyuk, O. V. Zhukov, V. V. Gurelia, A. A. Zymaroeva, V. M. Pazich, R. G. Fedonyuk // Novohrad-Volynskyi: Naumovich R. A., 2019.

• Instructional materials for the use of the geoinformation system of the Chernobyl radiation-ecological biosphere reserve / O. V. Skidan, T. P. Fedonyuk, O. V. Zhukov, V. V. Gurelia, A. A. Zymaroeva, V. M. Pazich, R. G. Fedonyuk // Novograd-Volynskyi: Naumovich R. A., 2020.