Vasyl Kostenko

After graduating from the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy in 1974, from 1974 to 1979 he worked as the chief zootechnician of the Cherkasy region. From 1977 to 1980 he studied in absentia in postgraduate studies. From 1981 to 1989 he worked as an assistant, from 1989 to 2006 - associate professor; from 2000 to 2002 - head of the department of milk and beef production technology. From 02.06.2006 to 2025 - professor of the department of milk and beef production technology (milk and meat production technologies) of the National University of Life Resources and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine. (from 1996 to 1997 - doctoral student). In 1981 he defended his candidate's thesis, and in 2005 - doctoral thesis. The academic title of professor was awarded in 2007. From the time of the defense of his doctoral dissertation until 2022, he was a permanent member of the specialized academic council D 26.004.05 at the National University of Bioresources and Environmental Management of Ukraine, and from 2014 to 2022, a member of the expert council on the examination of dissertations of the Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine in zootechnics and veterinary medicine. V.I. Kostenko's creative output includes more than 200 scientific works, including 29 books (single and co-authored), 2 copyright certificates and 3 patents for a useful model. V.I. Kostenko is a co-author of the first in Ukraine (in his native language) standard program and textbook and the author of a workshop for universities in the discipline "Animal Husbandry" - "Animal Husbandry and Technology of Milk and Beef Production".

The main areas of scientific activity are devoted to improving technological solutions for milk and beef production, studying the physiological aspects of lactation, the technique of machine milking cows, developing modern concepts for feeding cattle and raising replacement young stock, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. He is the initiator and one of the developers of the principles and algorithms for designing (modeling) technological processes for raising replacement young stock, milk and beef production.