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Department of Astrophysics

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Employees

ChairpersonBohdan MelekhChairperson
ProfessorBohdan NovosyadlyjProfessor
ProfessorMarkiyan VavrukhProfessor
Associate ProfessorIhor KoshmakAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorSviatoslav SmerechynskyiAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorOksana StelmakhAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorNestor TyshkoAssociate Professor
Research Fellow (by-worker)Dmytro DzikovskyiResearch Fellow (by-worker)
1st Category EngineerNadiya Vorobets1st Category Engineer
Senior Department SecretaryRuslana MelekhSenior Department Secretary
Postgraduate StudentFedir KarasenkoPostgraduate Student
Postgraduate StudentMyroslav KashebaPostgraduate Student

Lecturers' schedule



Teaching materials

Electronic courses:

1. Electronic course on the subject “Mechanics”: Melekh B.Ya., Smerechynskyi S.V., Stelmakh O.M., Koshmak I.O. Video lectures (with a description of the content), video demonstrations of laboratory work and modular tests in Mechanics for students of the Faculty of Physics.
— The structure of the electronic course “Mechanics”.
— Electronic course “Mechanics” on the platform “E-learning” of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (for authorized users).

Textbooks:

1. M.V. Vavrukh, S.V. Smerechynskyi, N.L. Tyshko. New models in the theory of the structure of degenerate dwarfs: a monograph – Lviv: Rastr-7, 2018. – 268 p.

2. M.V. Vavrukh, S.V. Smerechynsky, O.M. Stelmakh, N.L. Tyshko. Collection of problems in mechanics: Textbook — Lviv: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2017. — 285 p.

3. V.V. Holovatyi, B.Ya. Melekh, N.V. Havrylova. Physics of emission of gas nebulae. — Lviv: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2013. — 130 p.

4. Novosyadlyi B.S. The structure and evolution of the Universe, a textbook. — Lviv: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2019. — 159 p.

Laboratory workshops:

1. Spherical astronomy: methodical recommendations. Concluded by L. Yankiv-Vitkovska. — Lviv: Publishing center of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2001. — 40 p.

2. Concluded by L. Yankiv-Vitkovska. Theoretical astrophysics: methodical recommendations. — Lviv: Publishing center of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2001. — 46 p.

3. V.V. Holovatyi, B.Ya. Melekh, N.V. Havrylova. Physics of gas nebulae. Laboratory workshop . — Lviv: Publishing center of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2006. — 78 p.

Research

Main topics of the scientific activity of Department of Astrophysics:

  • Diagnostics and photoionization modelling of the nebular environments (planetary nebulae, HII regions, diffuse ionized gas surrounding the star-forming regions)
  • Internal structure of the compact astrophysical objects (white dwarfs and neutron stars)
  • Structure and evolution of the Universe
  • Stellar atmospheres

Congratulations Mariia Seniak, Valeriia Pinchuk, Nataliia Mykhailyshyn, and Yuliia Shevchuk on their success in the competition for internships at DESY

01.10.2025 | 11:45

Congratulations to the students of the Quantum Computers and Quantum Programming educational program — Mariia Seniak, Valeriia Pinchuk, Nataliia Mykhailyshyn, and Yuliia Shevchuk — on their success in the competition for internships at DESY and the successful completion of the DESY Summer Student Programme 2025 in Hamburg!
We wish you further achievements!
Mariia Seniak and Nataliia Mykhailyshyn carried out the project “Numerical Simulation and Analytical Study of Efficient Weakly Nonlinear Plasma Wakefield Injector for PETRA IV and Plasma Wakefield Colliunder...

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We congratulate Vasyl Ihnatyuk and his student Khrystian Samorodov on winning the Best Poster Award at the international conference

17.09.2025 | 20:02

We congratulate Associate Professor of the Department of Theoretical Physics, Senior Research Fellow of the I. R. Yukhnovsky Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the NAS of Ukraine, Vasyl Vasylovych Ihnatyuk, and his student, fourth-year undergraduate of the study program ‘Quantum Computers and Quantum Programming’, Khrystian Samorodov, on winning the Best Poster Award at the international conference Statistical Physics: Theory and Computer Simulations! We wish them further success!
The title of the poster presentation: ‘The Recoherence / Decoherence Processes in a...

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