During his professional career, he held the following positions: full-time underground miner at the Zarichna mine of the Lviv Coal State Enterprise (1991), postgraduate student in the Department of Underground Development of Deposits of the National Technical University of Ukraine (1996-1999), assistant of this department (1999-2002), deputy director of the Center for Ukrainian-Polish Cooperation of the National Technical University of Ukraine (2001-2004), director of this Center (from 2004 to the present), associate professor in the Department of Underground Development of Deposits (2002 - 2013), professor of this department (2013-2018), professor of the Department of Mining Engineering and Education (from 2018 to present), deputy vice-rector for scientific work (2008-2021), and head of the Research Department (2011-2021). In addition, he was the head of the regional contact point for the EU Horizon 2020 program, as well as the legal entity-appointed representative (LEAR) within the Framework Program for Research and Technical Development of the EU.
Scope of research activity:
- Extracting thin and very thin coal seams, including reserves with different structural changes;
- Substantiating mining technologies in zones of geologic infringements and stress borders;
- Biomass and coal gasification;
- Green energy;
- Management of mining pressure;
- Simulation of mining processes and other problems related to mining activity.
Dr. Artur Dyczko is an assistant professor at the Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences. He completed his PhD studies in engineering, mining, and geoengineering at the AGH University of Krakow. He has over 25 years of professional experience in as a mining engineer, including nearly 3 years in operating the copper ore mine at the KGHM S.A. Moreover, In 2013, he won the national competition for the best scientific publication of the "Przegląd Górniczy" magazine. His interests include mining, coal mining, and management systems in the mining industry, and his study areas include
the exploitation of deposits, planning and scheduling of production, deposit modeling, economics of obtaining raw materials, and optimization and restructuring of mining plants.
