About the author

Andrii Kyrychok

Associate Professor, Candidate of Science in Social Communications, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Born on June 16, 1992, in Kyiv, in a family of university teachers. In 2009, he entered the Publishing and Printing Institute of KPI, where further he received the Bachelor’s degree in Advertising and Public Relations with honors in June 2013 and a Master of Public Relations with honors in June 2015. In December 2015 he entered the post-graduate course in Social Communications. In September 2016, he defended his dissertation thesis for a Candidate of Science Degree in Social Communications. The title of the PhD thesis is “Improvement of the system of training of specialists in the field of public relations.’ Since August 2015 he worked as an assistant at the Department of Publishing and Editing of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. During post-doctoral studying, he worked on a part-time basis. After maintaining a thesis Andrii continued working as an assistant in the same department. In May 2017 he was promoted to the position of Senior Lecturer, from January 2019 he was elected for occupation the position of Assistant Professor.

He teaches courses in Media Planning, Marketing Communications, Informational Management and International Public Relations. He has been actively promoted the teaching of some of these courses in English.

He is fond of basketball and athletics and participated in the World University Games in 2013 as a member of the National Basketball Team of Ukraine. His sports title is a Candidate of Masters of Sports (CMS).