I did my PhD research at Lviv Polytechnic National University (Ukraine) and earned a doctoral degree in the field of electronic engineering in 2009. Briefly, my thesis addressed the sensor applications of thermoelectric effects in Si-Ge micro- and nanowires at cryogenic temperatures. Since 2010 I have been performing post-doctoral studies in the field of thermoelectrics for waste heat recovery technologies. These included the study of magnesium silicide thin films (Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France, 2010-2011), nanostructured bulk skutterudites (University of Lorraine, Nancy, France, 2012-2014), and bismuth telluride based compounds (Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, OK, USA, 2015). Since 2017 I work at the Clausthal University of Technology (Goslar, Germany) in the field of material science, piezoelectric materials, sensors and actuators. In particular, my competences in this field include (i) aluminum nitride for high-temperature piezoelectric applications, (ii) piezoelectric nanobalance measurements, (iii) ceria-based materials for catalytic converters.