Vitalii Hryhorovych PANOK
Vice-President of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (NAES of Ukraine)

Full Member (Academician) of the NAES of Ukraine (elected on February 11, 2025), Doctor of Sciences in Psychology, Professor, Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine. He serves as Vice-President of the NAES of Ukraine and Acting Academician-Secretary of the Division of Psychology and Special Pedagogy of the NAES of Ukraine. He is also the Head of the All-Ukrainian Association of Practicing Psychologists. 

Born on February 1, 1958. 

Graduated from the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, at the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University (1981). 

A scientist in the fields of applied, general, social, and developmental psychology. He is the organizer and long-time leader of the psychological service within Ukraine’s education system. He was one of the organizers of the Ukrainian Scientific-Methodological Centre for Practical Psychology and Social Work under the NAES of Ukraine. 

Author and co-author of over 400 scientific works addressing the theory and methodology of applied psychology, developmental and general psychology, and the scientific-methodological support for the operations of psychological services. Of them 20 monographs, 21 textbooks and study guides for higher education institutions, 39 practical manuals and curricula, 57 reference publications and encyclopedia entries, as well as 195 scientific articles and book chapters. 

Among his most notable works are the monographs “Psychological Phenomenology of an Ecological Disaster”, “Psychology of an Individual’s Life Path”,  “Practical Psychology. Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Development,” “Applied Psychology: Theoretical Issues,”  “Protection and Support of the Mental Health of Ukrainians under Martial Law: Challenges and Responses”; as well as textbooks and manuals for higher education institutions, including “Fundamentals of Practical Psychology”, “Psychological Service in Higher Education Institutions”, “Fundamentals of Psychological Counseling”, “Psychological Service”, and “Fundamentals of Psychological Assistance: Theory and Practice of Psychological Counseling”, among others. H-index (Google Scholar) – 29. 

Under the supervision of V.H. Panok 14 PhD (Candidate of Sciences) dissertations have been successfully defended. 

He has participated in international projects (in the UK, Sweden, the USA, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, and Germany). 

V.H. Panok is included in the reference work “Who’s Who in the 21st Century” under the category of “Practical Psychology” (Cambridge, UK). 

He has been awarded the Order of Merit (3rd Class), a Certificate of Honour from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine’s badges “Excellence in Education of Ukraine” and “For Scientific Achievements,” as well as the K.D. Ushinsky and Hryhorii Skovoroda medals from the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (NAES of Ukraine) etc.