The Faculty of Physics

Kaydash Vadym Grigorijevich

    Associated professor of Department of Astronomy and Space Informatics of Kharkiv V. N. Karazin National University;

    Phone: +38 (057) 707-54-70;
    Address: Svobody sq. 4, 2-7, Kharkiv, 61077.
    E-mail: vkaydash@astron.kharkov.ua

   He graduated from the Physics Department of the Kharkov А.M. Gorky State University in astronomy in 1993. After graduation, he attended graduate school of Kharkov National University in 1994-1997. In 1997 he began working at the Kharkov State University as an engineer. After defending his doctoral dissertation in 1999, he was appointed a junior research fellow of the Research Institute of Astronomy. Since 2012 he worked as head of the Department of remote sensing of planets of Institute of Astronomy, and in 2014 was elected to the position of Director of the Institute of Astronomy. Since 2014 ? Associate Professor of the Department of Astronomy and Space Informatics.
He had defended his PhD thesis «Prediction of the Chemical Content and Zoning of the Lunar Nearside Surface by Optical Measurements Data» in 1997. Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy and Division F Commission 15 “Physical Study of Comets and Minor Planets” of International Astronomical Union since 2012. Laureate of the Basic sciences book award of International Academy of Astronautics, 2010. Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2011). He has 140 scientific publications in leading national and foreign professional journals.
   Field of research – spectrophotometry and polarimetry of atmosphereless space bodies.
   The lectures courses: «Informatics and Programming», «Mathematical modelling».

   Main scientific publications:

1. Yuriy Shkuratov, Gorden Videen, Vadym Kaydash. Optics of the Moon (2025), Elsevier, pp. 1 - 905, Paperback ISBN: 9780128179727 eBook ISBN: 9780128179734. DOI 10.1016/C2018-0-03000-5
2. Surkov Y., Shkuratov Y., Kaydash V., Videen G., Mall U., Velichko S. Lunar spinels in the Aristarchus crater and cobra head (2024) Planetary and Space Science, 240, art. no. 105831, DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2023.105831
3. Golubaev, AV, Zheleznyak, AP, Kaydash, VG. Assessment of astroclimate conditions of the Observation complex of the Research Institute of Astronomy of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Kinemat. fiz. nebesnyh tel, 2023, 39(4):89-98 https://doi.org/10.15407/kfnt2023.04.089
4. Are we alone in the Universe? Vil Bakirov, Massimo Capaccioli, and Vadym Kaydash, Editors. Kharkiv: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 2022. 150 p. ISBN 978-966-285-753-5. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366200527_Are_we_alone_in_the_Universe
5. S Velichko, V Korokhin, Y Shkuratov, V Kaydash, Y Surkov, G Videen. Photometric analysis of the Luna spacecraft landing sites. Planetary and Space Science, 216, 105475 , 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2022.105475
6. Yehor Surkov, Yuriy Shkuratov, Vadym Kaydash, Sergey Velichko, Viktor Korokhin, Gorden Videen. Characterizing southern portion of mare Vaporum with improved Chandrayaan-1 M3 data, Icarus, Volume 355, 2021,114123, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114123.
7. Y Surkov, Y Shkuratov, V Kaydash, V Korokhin, G Videen. Lunar ilmenite content as assessed by improved Chandrayaan-1 M3 data. Icarus (2020) 341, 113661
8. Vadym Kaydash, Yuriy Shkuratov, Viktor Korokhin, Sergey Velichko, Gorden Videen. The lunar surface around extremely fresh craters, Icarus. 1 September 2018. 311, 258-270, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2018.04.024
9. Yuffa A., Kaydash V., Korokhin V., Shkuratov Y., Zubko E., Videen G. Phase-ratio imaging as applied to desert sands for tracking human presence. Applied Optics (2017) 56, B184-B190. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.56.00B184
10. Kaydash V., Shkuratov Y., Wolff M., Videen G. Terrestrial planets. In: Polarimetry of Stars and Planetary Systems / Eds.: L. Kolokolova, J. Hough, and A.-C. Levasseur-Regourd. Cambridge University Press. United Kingdom 2015. 289-302.