Gadzyra Mykola Pylypovych, born on September 17, 1958 in the village of Hlushkivtsi of the Yarmolyntsi district of Khmelnytskyi region in collective farm workers family. In 1965, he began studying at a secondary school, which he graduated in 1975. In the same year, he entered to the Vinnytsia State Pedagogical Institute named after M. Ostrovsky at the Physics and Mathematics Faculty at the Physics Department. After graduating from the institute in 1979, he received a diploma with honors and the qualification of a physics teacher. In 1979-1981 he served in the armed forces of the Soviet Union. In 1981, he started working at the Physics Department of the Vinnytsia Polytechnic Institute as an assistant. In 1985 he entered postgraduate studies at the Department of General Physics of Kyiv State University named after T. G. Shevchenko. After completing postgraduate studies in 1988, he was invited to work at the Institute of Surface Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine as a junior researcher to the technology department for the modification of dispersed carbon materials. In 1989, he defended his PhD thesis in solid state physics. In 1993, he was selected by competition for the position of research associate at the Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the department of non-oxide refractory materials and functional ceramics. In 1996-1999, he studied at the doctoral program of the Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science of the NAS of Ukraine. After completing his doctoral studies in 1999, he was accepted as a senior researcher, and in 2002 he was transferred to the position of a leading researcher. In 2002, he defended his doctoral thesis in materials science and in 2003 he was selected for the position of head of the department of non-oxide refractory materials and functional ceramics. In 2016, he was transferred to the position of head of the laboratory of nanostructured materials based on refractory compounds.