Oleksandr Bukalov

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

PhD in psychology, PhD in socionics, Master of Technical Sciences, cyberneticist, physicist, Honorary Doctor of the Institute of Ukrainian-Caucasian Studies of the UANPP.

Journals of the International Institute of Socionics

Founder and CEO

Founder and Director International Institute of Socionics (IIS) from 1992.
Editor-in-chief of the journals published by MIS: “Socionics, mentology and personality psychology”, “Management and personnel: psychology of management, socionics and sociology”, “Psychology and socionics of interpersonal relationships”, “Pedagogy, psychology and socionics of education”, “Physics of consciousness and life, cosmology and astrophysics”, “The Origin of Language and Culture: Ancient Human History”.

Leader in Science

Oleksandr Bukalov is the Chairman of the International Scientific Council on Socionics;
Member of the Academic Council of the International Research Institute of Space Anthropoecology (IRSICA).
He is Organizer and Chairman of the annual International conferences on socionics (since 1991).
He wrote more than 400 scientific and research works and methods in the field of socionics, psychology and management, cultural studies, linguistics, social psychology, as well as physics, linguistics, history, anthropology.
He is the author of a number of books, including the monograph “The Potential of the Individual and the Mysteries of Human Relations”, and textbooks on socionics.

A.V. Bukalov opens the 28th International Conference on Socionics (Kyiv, September 2012) — O.V. Bukalov opens the 28th International Conference on Socionics (Kyiv, September 2012)

academia-2026 — A. V. Bukalov is among the top 2% of the most widely read authors on the Academia.edu scientific publication network.
According to the Bibliometrics of Ukrainian Science, his scientific rating (Hirsch index) is h=35 (2026). He is among the top 15 scientists in Ukraine in the Social Sciences section (out of 7,728).

Scientist and researcher

He proposed the concepts of integral socionics (the theory of information metabolism of individual and societal psyche) and ethno-socionics as a generalization of ethno-psychology within the framework of the description of society, ethnicity and state by information models, as well as the psychoinformational space of the ethnicity and its dynamics in the form of a change in development phases (the so-called “law of quadra replacement”, modeling the development of earthly civilization, including within the framework of SETI, with a new solution to the well-known astro-sociological paradox of Fermi.
His scientific interests include modeling of physical processes (superconductivity physics, cosmology, astrophysics, biophysics), as well as quantum models of life, consciousness and the psyche.

Expert, consultant, trainer, teacher

Under the leadership of Oleksandr Bukalov, experts from the International Institute of Socionics conducted 150 expert and consulting work at enterprises, banks, organizations and firms of various profiles of activity (including 30 enterprises in the Far North) on issues of team building, personnel audit, team coherence, personnel selection and career development. Oleksandr Bukalov has conducted more than 4,000 individual socionic interviews. Hundreds of students have completed his seminars and trainings on socionics, as well as online courses.

Participants of the seminars and trainings of Alexander Bukalov and Olga Karpenko received diplomas of bachelors in socionics (Kyiv, 2018) — Participants of the seminars and trainings of Oleksandr Bukalov and Olga Karpenko received diplomas of bachelors in socionics (Kyiv, 2018)

Awards

Diploma of the Ukrainian Optical Society (2009) “for outstanding contribution to the creation and popularization of the latest trends in Human Optics” with the award of the Academician N.I. Vavilov Medal.
Awarded the Grand Laureate Diploma of the International Academic Ranking (2008), signed by the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician B.E. Paton. The diploma was presented by the Vice President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician A.G. Naumovets.
In 2011, he was awarded a medal and diploma, which were presented by the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician B.E. Paton.