Ph.D.: Institute of Physics, National Academy of Science (Ukraine), 1997

• Applied Optics (light interaction with non-linear and anisotropic media, photoalignment and photo-orientation effects in soft matter, polarization optics and ellipsometry)
• Crystallography (polymer films and liquid crystals)
• Smoke and fire detection (LIDAR systems)
• Biophysics & Biophotonics (bioanalytical instrumentation, artificial tissue engineering, drug delivering using nanoparticles, liquid crystals bio-imaging)
• Renewable Energy (liquid crystals for photovoltaics, photovoltaic effect in ferroelectric thin films)
• Soft Condensed Matter (physics of nanofluids, development and study of structured colloids)
• Liquid Crystals (thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals and ordered layers)
• Surface related phenomena (interaction of liquid crystals with surfaces of a different nature, physics of liquid crystals in confined geometries).
• Electro-optical phenomena in liquid crystals (Freedericksz transition, dynamics of orientational transitions in nematics, cholesterics and smectics, director relaxation, electrically controlled birefringence effects)
• Material Science (thin films, heterogeneous systems, nanoparticles and nanosuspensions, ordered colloids)
• Liquid Crystal Display Devices (all the related fundamental and applied science, including all the display modes, bistable displays, and flexible displays)
• Non-Display Applications of Liquid Crystals (Diffractive and beam steering devices, switchable windows)
• Liquid crystals in microwave (properties and devices)
• Experimental Techniques and Instrumentation (data acquisition, computer and instrumentation hardware, pilot lines, mass production & clean room procedures).

• Million Dollars Club Inductee - University of Colorado - Colorado Springs, 2015
• National Science Foundation EAGER Grant-Award for Single-Step Processing of Self-Assembled Magneto-Dielectric Hybrid Composites for Microwave Phased Array Sensors, 2014
• Thomas Jefferson Award – System Wide Award, University of Colorado, 2013
• College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Outstanding Research Award, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs, 2011
• Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2008
• Inventor of the Year, University of Colorado, 2007
• Inventor Recognition Award, Kent State University, 2004
• Award-Fellowship of the President of Ukraine, 2000