Sergii Boichenko has been Director and then Scientific Chief of the Ukrainian Research and Educational Center of Chemmotology and Certification of Fuels, Lubricants and Technical Liquids at the National Aviation University (NAU) since 2005. He was Head of the Ecology Department at NAU from 2010 until 2018, when he became Dean of the NAU Faculty of Environmental Safety, Engineering, and Technologies. His primary field of scientific interest is the effective and efficient use of conventional and alternative fuels, lubricants, and technical liquids. Over the years, Dr. Boichenko has been the scientific chief of more than 10 national scientific-research projects granted by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Since 2006, he has been a founder and head of the Program Committee of the International Scientific-Technical Conference “Problems of Chemmotology – Theory and Practice of Rational Use of Traditional and Alternative Fuels and Lubricants” since 2006 and is an acting memberof the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection. He graduated from the Kiev Institute of Engineers of Civil Aviation in 1992 with a degree in Operation of Air Transport and received a Doctor of Sciences degree in 2004.
Anna Yakovlieva has been Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Safety, Engineering, and Technologies of the National Aviation University (NAU) since 2019. Before that, she held positions as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of the Ecology Department at NAU. She received a master’s degree in Ecology and Environmental Protection in 2010 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering of Fuels & Lubricants in 2016 from the National Aviation University, and a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the Rzeszow University of Technology in 2018. Dr. Yakovlieva was an executive researcher of five national scientific-research projects granted by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine between 2013 and 2017, and since 2017 has been scientific chief of a scientific-research project granted for young scientists. Her field of scientific interests are renewable jet fuels, sustainable transport, alternative energy sources, and environmental protection. She is an author and co-author of more than 120 publications, including monographs, textbooks, and patents. In 2016 she was a winner of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Award for Young Scientists for research activity in the field of development and implementation of alternative jet fuels.
Oleksandr Zaporozhets has been a Professor at the National Aviation University (NAU) since 1999, where he was also Director of the Institute of Environmental Safety from 2019 to 2020, and Head of the Department of Safety of Life Activity from 2001 through 2013. His areas of research include aircraft noise and air pollution impact assessment and abatement at airports, environmental protection from civil aviationimpact, environmental risk analysis and control, flight safety, aviation security, and wind farms safety. Dr. Zaporozhets graduated from the Kiev Institute of Engineers of Civil Aviation in 1984. He has been a nominated member from Ukraine of the Committee on Environmental Protection from the Impact of Aviation (CAEP) of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) since 2009, and Scientific Supervisor of the Center for Environmental Problems of Airports (CESA) of the NAU since 2006. He is a member of the Ukrainian Grouping of Acousticians and a contact person with the European Acoustic Association.
T. Hikmet Karakoc is a Full Professor with the Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Eskisehir Technical University, and Head of Eskisehir Technical University Aviation Research Center. He received his MSc from Yildiz Technical University in 1983, and his Ph.D. from Anadolu University in 1987. Professor Karakoc is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Sustainable Aviation, has published many papers at various national and international conferences, and has authored and edited several books. He is the president of the International Sustainable Aviation and Energy Research Society (SARES) and the founding chair of the SARES symposiums ISEAS, ISATECHm, and ISSA. He is the head of Eskisehir Technical University Aviation Research Center. His research areas include sustainable aviation, aircraft propulsion system, insulation, heating ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), indoor air quality, gas turbines, cogeneration systems, renewable energy, energy economics, fuels, and combustion
Iryna Shkilniuk has been Director of the Ukrainian Science Research and Educational Center of Chemmotology and Certification of Fuel, Lubricants, and Technical Liquids at the National Aviation University (NAU) since 2015. Before that, she was a junior researcher and then chief of the test center (AviaTEST) at NAU from 2007 through 2009. She received a master’s degree in Technologies and Technological Equipment of Airports from NAU in 2006. She was a researcher with seven national scientific-research projects granted by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine from 2010 through 2020 and executive researcher of a scientific-research project granted by the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry. Her field of scientific interests are microbial contamination of traditional and alternative aviation fuels, sustainable aviation fuel supply, deicing, and environmental protection. She is an author and co-author of more than 50 publications, including textbooks and patents.
Alper Dalkiran, Ph.D., received his bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Eskisehir Technical University. He completed his MSc degree in the School of Science at Anadolu University and earned his Ph.D. in 2017 on Environmental Sustainability of Airports from the School of Science at Anadolu University. He is currently working in the School of Aviation at Suleyman Demirel University.
