• Theory and methodology of geography as a science;
• Political geography and geopolitics;
• Ethnic geography and historical geography;
• Demographic geography and geography of settlements;
• Economic geography and geo-economics.

• Dnistrianskyi M., Kopachinska G., Dnistrianska N. Modern conflicts regarding the political status of territories: typological differences, features of spread and prospects for resolution // Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 2022. №57. PP. 113–123. DOI 10.12775/bgss-2022-0026.
• Dnistrianskyi M., Molnár J., Chaika I. Natural reduction of Ukraine’s population: Regional dimensions of the national threat // Hungarian Geographical Bulletin. 2021. № 70(4). P. 293–310. https://doi.org/10.15201/hungeobull.70.4.1

Geographer, Ph.D. in Geography (Political and Administrative System of Ukraine (geographical problems of formation and improvement), 1995), Assoc. Prof. (1997), Dr. in Geography (Ethnopolitical Geography of Ukraine: Problems of Theory, Methodology, Practice, 2006), Professor (2008).

The Faculty of Geography of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv graduate (1989). In 1989-90 a teacher; 1990-96 an assistant, 1996-2006 Assoc.  Prof., a Professor of the Department of Geography of Ukraine of the University since 2006.

Scientific interests: political geography, historical geography, and ethnic geography, geopolitics; he developed theoretical, methodological, and methodological foundations for the study of administrative-territorial organization, formation and functioning of state borders, revealed the patterns of their impact on the socio-geographical environment, substantiated the principles of constructive balanced geopolitics, developed methods of interrelated study of ethno geographical and territorial-political relations, which was the basis for his investigation of the nature of ethnopolitical relations on the territory of Ukraine, also substantiated the conceptual principles of a new direction of social geography – ethnopolitical geography.

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