Curriculum Vitae

Political scientist and human rights activist with an interdisciplinary background.
Currently a Senior FWO Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium.
I hold a PhD degree in Political Science from Humboldt University, Berlin.
My research interests and expertise include human rights and, in particular, the rights of LGBTQ+ people, gender equality, queer migration, urbspace and sexuality, anti-gender movements in Europe, heteroactivism, and political homophobia. 

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Education

PhD in Political Science
(2013-2017)
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

MA in Gender Studies
(2012-2013)
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

BA in Psychology
(2007-2010)
Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine

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

Visiting Assisting Professor (09/2026 – present) KU Leuven, Belgium

URIS Visiting Research Fellow (07/2026-12/2026) – Bazel University, Switzerland

FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow (09/2023 – 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 – 12/2020)
Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden

Fulbright Scholar
(10/2018 – 07/2019)
Centre for European Studies, Florida University, USA

Visiting Scholar
(2014-2015)
Centre for European Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Grants and Fellowships

2026 – URIS Fellowship (July-December 2026)

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 the German federal government]. Grant for the organisation of the Berlin Summer School in Methods in Social Sciences (co-organiser) 

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 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