Researchers with expertise in Ukraine
Researchers with expertise in Ukraine
The Viadrina Expert Service Ukraine offers the opportunity to find the Ukraine expertise of Viadrina researchers in the disciplines: Peace and Conflict Studies, History, Culture and Language, Law and Business / Politics and Law. This service is aimed at interested parties from the media, politics, education and society. In this way, the European University Viadrina aims to meet the increased demand for research-based knowledge about and from Ukraine.
The establishment of the Viadrina Expert Service Ukraine was made possible thanks to the support of the Kurt and Marga Möllgaard Foundation.
Filter by speciality and language
Peace and conflict research
Institute for Conflict Management (IKM) / Centre for Peace Mediation
Topics:
- Negotiations in the context of the war against Ukraine
- Dialogue in the context of systemic rivalry
- Dealing with conflicting goals, dilemmas and polarisation in conflict mediation
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreHead of the NGO Dialogue in Action
Topics:
- Peacebuilding
- Conflict research
- Religion and conflict
- Sociology of religion
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreInstitute for Conflict Management (IKM) / Centre for Peace Mediation
Topics:
- Peace mediation, in particular the use of interests as a lever for conflict mediation
- International law dimension of mediation processes
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreAssociated cooperation partner at the Institute for Conflict Management (IKM)
Topics:
- Conflict resolution
- Reconciliation
- Peace-building after conflicts
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Mediation and dialogue
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreKIU Research Fellow/ZOIS Berlin
Topics:
- Disputed borders and territories (Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria)
- Ukrainian forced migration in various contexts (particularly in EU countries, Belgium, Switzerland, Georgia and Moldova, including Transnistria)
- War-related migrations from Russia to Georgia
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreHistory
Professorship for Dictatorship and Democracy. Germany and Eastern Europe from 1914 to the Present, Viadrina / ZZF Potsdam
Topics:
- Contemporary history of Eastern Europe
- European dictatorships
- Research on violence
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Professorship for Kultur und Geschichte Mittel- und Osteuropas
Topics:
- History of Russia, Poland and Eastern Central Europe, with a focus on the 18th to 20th centuries
- Minority issues in Eastern and East-Central Europe
- Border conflicts and border shifts in the 20th century
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Assistant Professor at Charles University in Prague
Topics:
- intellectual history
- Cultural and literary history
- Research into historical memory and cultural heritage as well as transnational perspectives in the 19th and 20th centuries
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreResearch Associate at the Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian Studies
Topics:
- German-Ukrainian relations
- Polish-Ukrainian relations
- History of Ukraine in the 20th century
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreHead of Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian Studies
Topics:
- Polish-Ukrainian relations
- Polish-Ukrainian migration relations
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn more
Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian Studies
Topics:
- Ukrainian history of the 20th and 21st centuries
- History and memory politics in Eastern and Central Europe
- Religious and nationality policy in the Soviet Union
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreAssistant Professor at the Chair of Entangled History of Ukraine
Topics:
- Deindustrialisation and its political impact: the old industrial region of Donbas in comparative perspective
- Memory culture and the politics of history in Russia and Ukraine (1991-2025)
- Russia's war against Ukraine (2014-2025)
- Economic and cultural history of the early modern Polish-Lithuanian Union
- Long-distance trade between the Middle East and Eastern Europe in 1250-1750
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreAssociate at the Viadrina Centre Polish and Ukrainian Studies
Topics:
- History of Ukraine
- Urban history and migrations in eastern Ukraine
- Memory history in the Polish-Russian-Ukrainian triangle
Contact: presse@europa-uni.d
Learn more
Research Associate at the Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian Studies
Topics:
- Borders, demarcations and border conflicts
- Nationality issues in the Soviet Union
- Minority issues in Ukraine
- History of Russia and the Soviet Union
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreProfessorship for Monument Studies
Topics:
- History of architecture and urban planning (modern times, modernism)
- Cultural heritage studies
- Conservation of historical monuments
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Culture and language
Research College European Times (EUTIM)
Topics:
- Ukrainian literature
- Translation from Ukrainian and Russian into German
Contact: dathe@europa-uni.de
Learn moreH. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Topics:
- Eco-philosophy and environmental humanities
- Sustainable development
- Interactions between war and the environment
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreKyiv National Linguistic University
Topics:
- Linguistics
- Social sciences (theories of influence: manipulation, persuasion)
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreChair of Eastern European Literatures
Topics:
- Film and cultural history of Ukraine
- Interdisciplinary studies of Ukraine
- Simultaneities in the cultures of Central and Eastern Europe
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
learn moreResearch assistant at the Viadrina Language Centre, Ukrainian lectorate
Topics:
- Translations Ukrainian-German
- Teaching in the field of language practice, Slavic linguistics, language contact and sociolinguistics
- Ukrainian as a foreign language in the context of other Slavic languages
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreAssociate Professor at Rivne State Humanitarian University
Topics:
- Literary Studies
- Linguistics
- Media linguistics
- Cultural studies
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreTopics:
- Ukrainian literature
- Ukrainian literary studies
- Ukrainian-Russian literary relations
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreNational University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy / TraCe Research Fellow
Topics:
- Language policy in Ukraine
- Language activism
- Decommunisation processes in Ukraine
- Language ideologies in times of war
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreAssociate Member at the Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian Studies
Topics:
- Maledictology
- Works by modern Ukrainian writers in German translation
- Special languages
- German and Polish borrowings in the Ukrainian language
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreAssociate Member at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies
Topics:
- Ukraine in the German media
- German-Ukrainian relations
- Ukraine after 1991
- German and Polish borrowings in the Ukrainian language
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreProfessorship for Eastern European Literatures
Topics:
- Literary and cultural history of Ukraine
- Jewish studies
- Simultaneities in the cultures of Central and Eastern Europe
- Avant-garde and avant-garde theory including Yiddish and Ukrainian avant-gardes
- History of ideas
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Professorship for Monument Studies
Topics:
- History of architecture and urban planning (modern times, modernism)
- Cultural heritage studies
- Conservation of historical monuments
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Politics and society
Professorship for Digital Studies, European New School of Digital Studies
Topics:
- Political instrumentalisation of digital media
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreProfessorship for European Studies / Institute for European Studies (IFES)
Topics:
- General European significance of the conflict
- Aspects of Russian policy
- Reactions in Germany
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreInstitute of Political Science of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover
Topics:
- Politics, society and history of Ukraine
- Ukrainian economic policy
- Trump, US and EU policy towards Ukraine
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreDeputy Head of the International Office
Topics:
- University cooperation with Ukraine
- Dialogue-based knowledge transfer: science <--> civil society
- Network with over 90 organisations in Germany, Ukraine, Belarus and Poland from civil society, culture and education
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreSociologist at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, former DAAD visiting professor at the EUV
Topics:
- Internal displacement in Ukraine
- Ukrainian migration movements
- Paramilitary
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreScientific Director of the Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukraine Studies (KIU)
Topics:
- Civil society in Ukraine
- Resistance and revolutions in Ukraine
- Democratisation, & external democracy promotion
- Cultural development, German-Ukrainian cultural relations
- German-Ukrainian town twinning
- Transformation and Europeanisation (theoretical perspective on Ukraine)
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreLaw
Chair of Public Law, International and European Law
Topics:
- International law
- European law
- International criminal law
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
learn moreLearning Centre of the Faculty of Law (JLZ)
Topics:
- International law, in particular international humanitarian law, law of the sea
- Cyber warfare, cyber espionage, drones
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreFaculty of Law, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Topics:
- Criminal procedure law
- Restorative justice
- Offender-victim mediation
- Protection of human rights
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreTopics:
- Social security law in Ukraine
- European protection of social rights
- Integration of Ukrainians in Europe after 2022
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreExtended Professorship for International Law, Eastern European Law and Comparative Law
Topics:
- National law
- Eastern law
- Human rights
- Protection of minorities
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreJunior Professorship for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Commercial Criminal Law
Topics:
- Sanctions law
- Commercial criminal law
- Prosecution under criminal law
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreEconomy
Associate Professor at the Department of International Economic Analysis and Finance, Faculty of International Relations, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine
Topics:
- Digital finance and FinTech
- Economic reconstruction and post-conflict recovery
- International economy and finance
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreKyiv School of Economics and KIU Visiting Professor (winter term 2025/26)
Topics:
- Agricultural and food markets and agricultural and food policy
- Transport markets and transport policy
- Political economy and performance of local governance in Ukraine
- Effects of the war and post-war reconstruction and recovery in Ukraine
- EU integration
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn moreAssociate Professor Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy (Ukraine) and Senior Lecturer at Bielefeld University
Topics:
-
Ukrainian diaspora
-
Ukrainian forced migrants, return migration, international labour migration, remittances
-
International economic relations
Contact: presse@europa-uni.de
Learn more