Department of geophysical methods of mineral prospecting

Head of the department is professor Logvin Vasyl Mykolayovych.

The department was founded in 1935.

Nowadays at the department students of the direction ”Geology” and of the specialty “Geophysics” are taught. This specialty has two specializations:

• Prospecting geophysics;
  
• Ecological geophysics”.
  

The educational process is provided by a doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, professor, 3 doctors of sciences, professors, 11 candidates of sciences and highly qualified specialists from the institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and subsidiaries of the department. At the department there are 24 employees, including service staff.

The department has two subsidiaries:

• the Pridneprovsk geophysical prospecting expedition (the city Novomoskovsk);
  
• the State geophysical expedition “Dneprogeofizika” (the city Dnepropetrovsk).
  

The department offers post-graduate and doctorate courses on specialty “Geophysics”.

The main research work of the department is accomplished in the following directions:

• the development of theoretical base for interpretation of geophysical data;
  
• the development of software for the solution of inverse problems of geophysics, and combined interpretation of geophysical data;
  
• the geological interpretation of geophysical data.