Candidate of Historical Sciences (PhD equivalent).
Graduated from the Faculty of History, Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where she defended her dissertation on the history of the Kyiv Higher Courses for Women.
From 2005 to 2021, she was a Research Fellow at the Center for Ukrainian Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She has participated in numerous international research projects and co-organized student exchange programs. She has held fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
In 2020–2021, she worked on a project to curate the online oral history archive “Forced Labor 1939–1945: Memory and History” at Freie Universität Berlin.
She is currently (2026) a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Münster, Germany, on a Konrad Adenauer Foundation fellowship.
Author of numerous publications on women’s history, addressing women’s access to university and professional education, biographies of women scholars, early Soviet emancipation policy, and the fate of Ukrainian women in World War II.
Women’s history is an important, though not exclusive, area of her research interests.
Member of the Austrian-Ukrainian Historians’ Commission and the International Advisory Board of the Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin.
Co-founder and member of UARWH, where from 2010 to 2026 she served as treasurer on a pro bono basis.