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Valeriya Pinchuk is a Professor and Head of the Department of Thermal Engineering and Energy Technology at Dnipro University of Technology (National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine). She holds a Doctor of Engineering Sciences degree in Technical Thermal Physics and Industrial Heat-and-Power Engineering (2016) and has been actively contributing to academic and research activities in energy engineering for over two decades.
Her educational background includes graduation from the State Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine in Industrial Heat Power Engineering and Energy Saving (1999). She teaches core courses including 'Heat and Mass Transfer,' 'Special Issues of Heat and Mass Transfer,' and 'Recycling of Waste and the Use of Secondary Energy Resources,' while supervising student research, diploma theses, master's theses, and graduate students.
Professor Pinchuk's research focuses on thermal physics and aerodynamics, with particular emphasis on coal-water fuel combustion, thermophysical properties of materials, and waste-free technologies in energy and metallurgy. Her work spans experimental and numerical investigations of heat and mass transfer processes, fuel activation and catalysis, and extraction of rare earth elements from coal and biomass. She has published extensively in high-impact journals, with her research primarily addressing energy conversion efficiency, environmental aspects of solid fuel use, and innovative fuel technologies.
Her scientific contributions have been recognized through multiple awards from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and Dnipropetrovsk Regional authorities. Professor Pinchuk serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment and reviews for numerous international journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.
As an active member of the scientific community, she serves as an expert for the National Research Foundation of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. She is also a member of The Royal Society of Chemistry and an Academician of the Academy of Higher Education Sciences of Ukraine.
