Academic biography

Dr Viktoriia Ivannikova is an Assistant Professor in Aviation Management at Dublin City University Business School with an extensive teaching and research experience in aviation management and aviation operations in Ireland and Ukraine. She is also an External Examiner for MSc in Airport Planning and Management at Cranfield University, UK. 

Viktoriia’s current research interests primarily focus on creating more sustainable and efficient air transport system of the future – with improved safety, security, efficiency, sustainability and customer experience, enabling a safe, sustainable, seamless and touchless passenger journey from home to boarding.

Before coming to DCU, she was Associate Professor in Aviation Management; Assistant Head of the Air Transportation Management department; Director of Education in English at the Faculty of Transport, Management and Logistics and Faculty of Airports; Course director for BSc in Air Transportation Management and MSc in Air Transportation Management at the National Aviation University of Ukraine.

She did her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Civil Engineering with emphasis on airports designing and planning at National Aviation University of Ukraine and was awarded First Class for both. In 2011 she was awarded a PhD in Air Transportation Systems by National Aviation Unive