Inna V. Melnyk is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Geotechnics SAS, Kosice, Slovak Republic and the Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine. Her research focuses in the areas of sol-gel technique, surface chemistry, directed synthesis and design of hybrid materials (magnetically controlled particles, silica particles, membranes) and their application in sorption processes, water purification, bionanotechnology.