Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law at Zaporizhzhia National University (Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) since 2018.

Dmytro received his LLM degree in 2011 after graduating from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Kharkiv, Ukraine). He obtained his PhD in Law degree in 2015 after completing a PhD course at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University.

He holds a scientific degree of a Doctor of Legal Sciences awarded by Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in 2021. The scope of his research activities is in the field of land law, agricultural law and environmental law with a specific focus on food security, land use, land rights, organic production and environmental justice. Author of more than 90 scientific papers, including 2 monographs and 11 scientific international articles indexed in SCOPUS/Web of Science.

Dmytro is a Honorary Research Fellow of the School of Law at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, United Kingdom) (2022-2024). He has recently been a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (2024). He was a Principal Investigator of the scientific project of young scientists financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine “Legal provision of food security and rational land use in organic production in Ukraine in the context of European integration” (2020-2022).

Dmytro is a qualified solicitor, a member of Ukrainian National Bar Association (since 2019).