Inna Melnyk received her PhD in Chemistry in 2003 from the Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, with a specialization in physics and the chemistry of surfaces (Kyiv, Ukraine). She received her Senior Researcher academic degree in 2016 at the Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, NAS of Ukraine, and in 2018, from the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. She is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Geotechnics SAS (Kosice, Slovak Republic) and the Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine). She was a visiting scientist at the University of Parma (3 months in 2003, 2 months in 2006), the Max-Planck-Institut Fur Kohlenforschung (3 months, 2004-2005), CNRS Orleans Campus (3 months in 2005), Institut Charles Gerhardt (1 month in 2008, 2009, and 2010), and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (3 months in 2013, 1 month in 2019). Her core subject of research interest is in the field of material development (magnetically controlled particles, silica particles, and membranes), sol-gel techniques, surface chemistry, water remediation techniques, nanotechnology, structural determination techniques and their application in sorption processes, water purification, and bionanotechnology.