
Political scientist and LGBT rights activist with interdisciplinary background (International Economic Relations, Gender Studies, Psychology, Political Science).
Education
PhD in Political Science
(2013-2017)
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
MA in Gender Studies
(2012-2013)
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
MA in International Economic Relations
(2003-2004)
Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine
BA in International Economic Relations
(1999-2003)
Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine
Academic Positions
FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow (10/2021 – 08/2026) KU Leuven, Belgium
Visiting Fellow (04/2023 – 06/2023) Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Visiting Fellow (08/2022 – 10/2022) Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland
EUTOPIA Postdoctoral Fellow (09/2021 – 08/2023) Department of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Swedish Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
(01/2020 – 12/2021)
Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden
Fulbright Scholar
(10/2018 – 07/2019)
Center for European Studies, Florida University, USA
Senior Adjunct Fellow (non-Resident)
(2017-2018)
Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv, Ukraine
Visiting Scholar
(2014-2015)
Center for European Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Grants and Fellowships
2022 – Emma Goldman Award (Flax Foundation)
2022 – Aleksanteri Institute Visiting Fellowship (August- September 2022)
2021/2026 – FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship (Start of the position postponed to Sept 2023 due to EUTOPIA fellowship)
2021/2024 – UNA4CAREER Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined to take EUTOPIA and FWO Fellowships)
2021/2023 – EUTOPIA Post-doctoral Fellowship
2020 – Swedish Institute Post-doctoral Fellowship
2018 – Fulbright Scholar Fellowship
2017 – Open Society Foundation’s Think Tank Young Professional Development Program Fellowship
2013-2017 – DAAD [International academic service of German federal government]. Grant for the organization of the Berlin Summer School in Methods in Social sciences (co-organizer)
2016 – Fellowship for attending the Program in Women’s Studies at Duke University, NC, USA
2015 – Travel support grant from the College of Europe, Warsaw, and the Ben Gurion University, Israel
2015 – Travel support grant from the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany
2014 – Full grant from the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia, for participation in a Summer course
2014 – Erasmus+ fellowship for the stay abroad at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
2013 – Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Humboldt University
2013 – CEU Summer University Fellowship
2012 – CEU Full MA scholarship
Language proficiency:
Russian – native speaker
Ukrainian – native speaker
English – academic proficiency (C1)
Spanish – academic proficiency (C1)
Italian – working proficiency (B2)
German-conversational (B1)
Swedish – conversational (B1)
Chinese (Mandarin) – HSK 2