Viktoriya Sereda is a Senior Fellow and Project Director of the Forum Transregionale Studien, Head Coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS) and Professor of Sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University. She has taught sociology at the Ivan Franko Lviv National University and Central European University. Sereda has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Basel and a fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg at the University of Jena and Harvard Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Her research focuses on migration, memory, and identity in Ukraine.