Ivan Vakarchuk

Ivan Oleksandrovych Vakarchuk
Іван Олександрович Вакарчук
Born (1947-03-06) 6 March 1947
Brătuşeni, Edineț District Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Ukraine
Occupation Scientist
Title Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Honorary Doctor of Cracow Pedagogical Academy, Hero of Ukraine
Spouse(s) Svitlana Oleksandrivna Vakarchuk
Children Svyatoslav Vakarchuk (1975)
Oleg Vakarchuk (1980)
Awards Hero of Ukraine

Ivan Vakarchuk is a Ukrainian physicist. From 1990 to 2007 and again between 2010 and 2013 he was Rector of the Lviv University. In 2007–2010 he was Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine. Hero of Ukraine (awarded on 5 March 2007). Father of the leader of the rock band "Okean Elzy" Svyatoslav Vakarchuk.

Biography

Ivan Vakarchuk was born on March 6, 1947, in Stari Bratushany village, Edinetsky rayon, Moldavian SSR.[1]

Education

In 1965-1970 he studied at the Faculty of Physics at Lviv University named after Ivan Franko, in 1970-1973 he continued his studies at the postgraduate faculty of the Lviv Institute of theoretical physics, affiliated with USSR Academy of Sciences.[2][3]
In 1974 he defended his PhD thesis "Application of the method of displacements and collective variables in the study of interacting Bose particles near absolute zero", and in 1980 his doctoral thesis "Microscopic theory of Bose liquid".[4] Ivan Vakarchuk is representing the Lviv school of statistical physics founded by academician of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine I.Yukhnovsky.

Career

In 1973-1984 Ivan Vakarchuk was working at the Lviv branch of the Institute for Theoretical Physics affiliated with USSR Academy of Sciences (now is the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics of National Academy of Sciences) as: junior research assistant, senior researcher, head of Quantum Statistics department.
Since 1984 he's been performing the duties of Professor, head of department of Theoretical Physics at Lviv State Ivan Franko University.[2][3][5]
On November 13, 1990 Ivan Vakarchuk was elected the rector of Lviv State University named after Ivan Franko (current name - Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko) and worked till November 2007.
On December 18, 2007 he was appointed the Minister of education and science of Ukraine.[1][3] Later he hold this office again between 2010 and 2013.

Achievements in science

Ivan Vakarchuk has the rank of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, PhD with the thesis: "Application of the method of displacements and collective variables in the study of interacting Bose particles near absolute zero" (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1974) doctoral thesis on "Microscopic theory of Bose liquid '(Institute for Theoretical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1980).

A distinctive feature of professor Ivan Vakarchuk is the amplitude of his scientific interests: physics of quantum liquids, theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena, physics of disordered systems, magnetic systems, physics, mathematical methods in theoretical physics, fundamental problems of quantum mechanics and quantum computer sciences, geophysics, general relativity theory, cosmology, philosophy of science. In each of these fields he proposed new original approaches to the study of various physical phenomena and processes. The amplitude of his scientific interests allows him applying methods, which he invented to study different phenomena.

Ivan Vakarchuk pays articular attention to the latest achievements in science and philosophy of science issues, including the relationship between research methods of natural sciences and humanities, identifying common math mechanisms that "manage" the processes occurring in the humanitarian and social spheres.
He is the author of over 240 scientific papers. Author of the books: "Lectures on General Relativity" (1991), "Quantum Mechanics" (1998, 2004, 2007, 2012) "Introduction to the many-body problem" (1999), "The Theory of Stellar Spectra" (2003).[6]

Titles and awards

Family

Ivan Vakarchuk is married, his wife Svetlana (b. 1947) is teacher of physics, assistant professor of Lviv National Academy of veterinary medicine named after S.Gzhitsky.[5]
They have two sons: Svyatoslav Vakarchuk (b. 1975), who is a frontman of "Okean Elzy", the famous Ukrainian rock band,[7] and Oleg (b. 1980) - a bank employee.[5]

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