Education and Research Institute of Forestry and Landscape-Park Management

Department of Silviculture

03041, Horykhuvatsky Shlyakh 19, Kyiv, Ukraine

Oleksandr Soshenskyi

Associate Professor

Associate Professor
Disciplines

Silviculture

Forest Fire Management

Recreational Forestry

Education

Kremenets Forestry Technical College, vocational education in the specialty "Forestry," qualification: Forestry Technician (2009). National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, complete higher education in the specialty "Forestry," qualification: Master of Forestry (2012).

CV - CV_Oleksandr Soshenskyi_NUBIP_2025.pdf

Dissertation research

PhD (Candidate of Sciences) dissertation was successfully defended before the Specialized Academic Council D 26.004.09 at the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, specialty 06.03.02 — Forest Inventory and Forest Mensuration (diploma DK 040111 dated 13 December 2016). Title: "Peculiarities of the Mensurational Structure and the Assortment and Commercial Structure of Linden Stands in the Forest-Steppe Zone of Ukraine".

Scientific interests

Research focuses on silviculture, forest resilience to climate change, close-to-nature silviculture for forest adaptation, wildfire consequence mitigation, fire monitoring and prevention, land management in war-affected territories, and integration of digitalization, virtual and augmented reality into forestry education.

Internship

  1. Professional Development Program for Academic Managers (4 modules) organized by the British Council and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. April 23–26, May 21–24, June 18–21, July 16–19, 2025. Kyiv, Ukraine.

  2. Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forest Ecosystems 2025. COST Actions: CA20118 "Three-dimensional Forest Ecosystem Monitoring and Better Understanding by Terrestrial-based Technologies (3DForEcoTech)", CA22136 "Pan-European Network of Green Deal Agriculture and Forestry Earth Observation Science (PANGEOS)", CA21138 "Joint Effects of Climate Extremes and Atmospheric Deposition on European Forests (CLEANFOREST)", CA23135 "Bringing Digital Data and Reality Together — Augmented Reality in Forestry (ARiF)". August 4–8, 2025. University of Oxford.

  3. International Week and UNITA Days event: Cultural Diversity in Higher Education. Erasmus+ program. March 31 – April 4, 2025. Transylvania University of Brașov (Romania).

  4. Internship at Oregon State University under the BridgeUSA Ukrainian Academic Fellows Program. September 15 – October 15, 2024. Corvallis, Oregon, USA.

  5. Training School on Close-to-Nature Forestry at Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (BFH-HAFL). August 19 – September 1, 2024. Bern, Switzerland.

  6. XXVI IUFRO World Congress. June 23–29, 2024. Stockholm, Sweden.

  7. Training at FAO Headquarters: Fire Danger Rating System / Early Warning Systems (FDRS/EWS). March 21–22, 2024. Rome, Italy.

  8. Erasmus+ Cooperation Seminar for Austrian and Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions. June 12–13, 2024. Vienna, Austria.

  9. Seminar "Supporting Cooperation between the University of Reading (UK) and the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine". With support from the Biological and Biotechnical Research Council (BBSRC). June 2–8, 2024. Warsaw, Poland.

  10. Second Technical Workshop of the Global Fire Management Hub. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). March 19–21, 2024. Rome, Italy.

  11. Plenary Session of the Scientific Consortium under the HORIZON-2020 program. March 5–7, 2024. Athens, Greece.

  12. Professional Development: "Communicative and Psychological Strategies for Realizing the Acmeological Potential of Scientific-Pedagogical Staff". May 20 – May 31, 2024. Certificate СС00493706/022929-24 (2.0 ECTS).

  13. Mobility Program for Scientists and Researchers at Bern University of Applied Sciences. January 1 – February 8, 2023. Bern, Switzerland.

  14. Study visit under the UNIgreen UA project: Diversity, Inclusiveness and Multiculturalism. October 9–13, 2023. Liège, Belgium.

  15. 7th Forum Carpaticum conference "Carpathian Futures — Critical Transitions". September 25–26, 2023. Kraków, Poland.

  16. Seminar "Transformation of Forests to Close-to-Nature Forest Management in Ukraine: Nature-based Silvicultural and Fire Management Methods for Increasing the Resilience of Pine Stands to Drought and Wildfire". October 25–30, 2021. Eberswalde, Germany.

  17. International Seminar on Disaster Management. August 7–21, 2017. San Francisco, California, USA.

Expert, project and community activitie

Corresponding Member of the Forestry Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (since 2024). Deputy Representative of the International Committee from Ukraine in IUFRO (since 2024). Member of the Regional Eastern European Fire Monitoring Centre (since 2016). Head of the International Projects Department at NULES of Ukraine (since 2024).

Selected publications

  1. Melnykovych, M., Nijnik, M., Soshenskyi, O., et al. (2025). Pathways for Ukraine's post-war nature recovery: Focus on forest socio-ecological systems. Ambio https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02263-0.

  2. Bogomolov, V., Zibtsev, S., Myroniuk, V., Holiaka, D., Soshenskyi, O., Gumeniuk, V., Kalchuk, Y., Budzinskyi, I., & Zibtseva, I. (2025). Performance of the daily fire hazard index within territories contaminated by the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 116 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.105159.

  3. Zibtsev, S., Goldammer, J. G., Myroniuk, V., Sydorenko, S., Soshenskyi, O., Bogomolov, V., & Borsuk, O. (2024). Report on the large wildfires of 2022 in Europe. In M. Almeida, M. Soviev, & J. San-Miguel (Eds.), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. Publications Office of the European Union. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/19760.

  4. Soshenskyi, O., Myroniuk, V., Zibtsev, S., Gumeniuk, V., de Miguel Díez, F., & Vasylyshyn, R. (2024). Mapping wildland-urban interfaces to support wildfire management over fire-prone forest outskirts of the Zhytomyr region. Ukrainian Journal of Forest and Wood Science, 15(2) https://doi.org/10.31548/forest/2.2024.23.

  5. De Klerk, L., Shlapak, M., Gassan-zade, O., Korthuis, A., Zibtsev, S., Myroniuk, V., Soshenskyi, O., Vasylyshyn, R., Krakovska, S., & Kryshtop, L. (2024). Climate damage caused by Russia's war in Ukraine: 24 February 2022 – 23 February 2024. Initiative on GHG Accounting of War. https://en.ecoaction.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Climate-DamageCaused-by-War-24-months-EN.pdf.

  6. Averin, D., et al. (2024). The environmental consequences of the war against Ukraine: Preliminary 12-month assessment, summary and recommendations. Conflict and Environment Observatory, Zoï Environment Network, OSCE. https://nubip.edu.ua/sites/default/files/u184/osce-ukraine-env-cons_en.pdf.

  7. Sydorenko, S., Gumeniuk, V., De Miguel-Díez, F., Soshenskyi, O., Budzinskyi, I., & Koren, V. (2024). Assessment of the surface forest fuel load in the Ukrainian Polissia. Fire Ecology, 20 https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00265-z.

  8. Zibtsev, S., Pasternak, V., Vasylyshyn, R., Myroniuk, V., Sydorenko, S., & Soshenskyi, O. (2024). Assessment of carbon emissions due to landscape fires in Ukraine during war in 2022. Ukrainian Journal of Forest and Wood Science, 15(1) https://doi.org/10.31548/forest/1.2024.126.

  9. Rosset, C., Soshenskyi, O., & Melnykovych, M. (2024). Enhancing close-to-nature silviculture in Ukraine: The utility of martelage.sylvotheque.ch in fostering post-war forest recovery [Conference abstract]. IUFRO World Congress 2024, Stockholm, Sweden. https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/events/iwc24/iwc24-abstracts.pdf.

  10. Zibtsev, S., Goldammer, J., Myroniuk, V., Soshenskyi, O., Vasylyshyn, R., Denisov, N., Gumeniuk, V., Sydorenko, S., Borsuk, O., Braiko, V., & Zibtseva, I. (2024). Impact of war in Ukraine on wildfire regimes, fire management and carbon emissions [Conference abstract]. IUFRO World Congress 2024, Stockholm, Sweden. https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/events/iwc24/iwc24-abstracts.pdf.

  11. Myroniuk, V., Zibtsev, S., Bogomolov, V., Goldammer, J. G., Soshenskyi, O., Levchenko, V., & Matsala, M. (2023). Combining Landsat time series and GEDI data for improved characterization of fuel types and canopy metrics in wildfire simulation. Journal of Environmental Management, 345 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118736.

  12. Waeber, P. O., Melnykovych, M., Riegel, E., Chongong, L. V., Lloren, R., Raher, J., Reibert, T., Zaheen, M., Soshenskyi, O., & Garcia, C. A. (2023). Fostering innovation, transition, and the reconstruction of forestry: Critical thinking and transdisciplinarity in forest education with strategy games. Forests, 14(8) https://doi.org/10.3390/f14081646.

  13. Zibtsev, S., Soshenskyi, O., Melnykovych, M., Blaser, J., Waeber, P. O., & Garcia, C. (2023). Ukrainische Wälder im Fokus von Klimakrise, Krieg und Brandkatastrophen. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen, 174(2) https://doi.org/10.3188/szf.2023.0115.

  14. Soshenskyi, O., Melnykovych, M., Lobchenko, G., Zibtsev, S., & Kalchuk, Ye. (2023). Silvicultural approach required to increase forest resilience to climate change and wildfires in the Ukrainian Carpathians [Conference abstract]. 7th Forum Carpaticum, Kraków, Poland. https://nubip.edu.ua/sites/default/files/u184/2023_forum_carpaticum_2023_soshenskyi_2.pdf.

  15. Zibtsev, S. V., Soshenskyi, O. M., Goldammer, J. G., Myroniuk, V. V., Borsuk, O. A., Humeniuk, V. V., Meshkova, V. L., Vasyluk, O. V., & Buksha, I. F. (2023). Forest management on territories contaminated with unexploded ordnance [Short report]. WWF-Ukraine. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22495.12966.

  16. Zibtsev, S., Soshenskyi, O., Gumeniuk, V., & Bohomolov, V. (2023). Integrated landscape fire management plan in the Luhansk Oblast. Editorial and Publishing Department of NULES of Ukraine. [In Ukrainian]. https://nubip.edu.ua/sites/default/files/u184/zibtsev_et_al._monograf_2023.pdf.