NIKOLAY KIKTEV, Candidate of Sciences in specialty 05.13.07 - "Automation of control processes", year of defense, 2011, National University of Food Technology Qualification on the diploma of the specialist - the engineer-system engineer on a specialty «Automated information processing and management systems ", year of issue - 1994, Donetsk State Technical University. Teaches disciplines: • Automation of technological processes and productions (masters) • CAD automation systems in agriculture (masters) • Installation, adjustment and operation of automation systems (masters) • Technologies for maintenance and repair of energy equipment and automation (masters) • Basics of CAD of woodworking objects (bachelors) Direction of scientific research. He is the author of 110 scientific and educational works, of which two scientific monographs, one patent, articles indexed in scientific metric databases Scopus and Web of Science, articles y professional publications of Ukraine, articles in foreign publications (Switzerland, Bulgaria, Poland, Russia), as well as 3 textbooks. Scientific directions: information-control automated technological control systems processes and productions in the agricultural industry, in chemical and electrochemical industries, coal industry.