Since 1996 he has been the Scientific Director of the Lviv Centre of Institute for Space Research of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and State Space Agency of Ukraine.

Graduated from Lviv Polytechnical Institute as electric engineer in 1965.

Degree in Electromagnetic Measurements in Lviv Polytechnical Institute in 1970.

Habilitation of Ph.D. in Geophysics in Institute of Physics of the Earth (Moscow) in 1991.

The first 30 years of his career he was active at the Institute of Physics and Mechanics (Lviv, Ukraine).