Dr Viktoriia Ivannikova

Dr Viktoriia Ivannikova is an Assistant Professor in Aviation Management at Dublin City University Business School with 15+ years of teaching and research experience in aviation management and aviation operations with emphasis on sustainability.

Viktoriia’s research interests primarily focus on sustainable airports designing, planning and management and digital transformation in aviation. Before coming to DCU she was Associate Professor in Aviation Management at National Aviation University of Ukraine; Assistant Head of the Air Transportation Management department; Director of Education in English at the Faculty of Transport, Management and Logistics and Faculty of Airports of the National Aviation University of Ukraine; Course director for BSc in Air Transportation Management and MSc in Air Transportation Management at the National Aviation University of Ukraine.

She did her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Civil Engineering with emphasis on airports designing and planning at National Aviation University of Ukraine and was awarded First Class for both. In 2011 she was awarded a PhD in Air Transportation Systems by National Aviation University (Ukraine). Her doctoral research was focused on air cargo operations management at an airport. In 2014 she delivered a course in airport operations management as an Erasmus exchange lecturer at Dublin Institute of Technology.

Viktoriia sits on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed academic journals “Transport”, “Aviation”, “Journal of Airline Operations and Aviation Management”. She is also a regular reviewer for a number of prestigious aviation and transport research journals. Viktoriia is a member of the Scientific Committee and Co-chairwoman of the section “Logistics and Transportation” of the Annual Scientific Conference “TRANSBALTICA: Transportation Science and Technology”, held by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Vilnius, Lithuania). She is also a member of the Organizing Committee and Conference Secretary at the Annual IEEE International Conference on “Advanced Trends in Information Theory” (Kyiv, Ukraine). Viktoriia is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is a secretary of the IEEE Ukrainian Section Information Theory Society Chapter. In 2014, she won the ‘Big Silver Medal’ for the best published research paper at the category: “Airports Designing and Planning” awarded by the Construction Academy of Ukraine.

Dr Ivannikova is a Board Member of the Research and Methodological Commission on Transport and Services of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and is responsible for the development of academic standards for Ukrainian universities delivering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in aviation management and transport engineering.

She is an International Expert of aviation and transport study programmes accreditation of the Independent Agency of Accreditation and Rating (IAAR) of Republic of Kazakhstan and National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (NAQA) of Ukraine.

She is author and co-author of four aviation books, numerous research papers in aviation management and regular speaker at international aviation conferences.