Viktoriya Sereda serves as Head Coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS) at the.Wissenschaftskolleg zu.Berlin and is a Professor of Sociology at the Kyiv School of Economics. She is also a Senior Advisor to the "War, Migration, and Memory" project at Forum Transregionale Studien and an Associate with the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. Previously, Dr. Sereda was a visiting lecturer at the University of Basel and taught at Central European University's Invisible University for Ukraine program. Her research centers on migration, memory, and identity in Ukraine. She has held faculty positions at the Ukrainian Catholic University and Ivan Franko Lviv National University, where she taught sociology.