PATYKA Mykola Volodymyrovych (04. 04. 1976, Chernihiv) — microbiologist.
Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (2010),
Professor (2020),
Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2023).
State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2012).
Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "For Outstanding Achievements in Agrarian Science" (2016).
Graduated from the Crimean Agrarian University (Simferopol, 2001).
In 2004–06, he worked as a senior researcher,
in 2009–10 — as a leading researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Microbiology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Chernihiv);
from 2010 — at the National University of Bioresources and Environmental Management of Ukraine (Kyiv, with a break): from 2016 — Head of the Department of Ecobiotechnologies and Biodiversity;
2014–15 — Head of the Department of Agricultural Microbiology and Plant Physiology of the Institute of Agriculture of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Chabany village, now the village of Fastiv district, Kyiv region). Scientific research: agricultural and soil microbiology; ecological assessment of the state of soils, structure and biodiversity of soil microbiota, biome and metagenome of environmental objects; agrobiology of the plant rhizosphere and functional microbial-plant interaction.