Viktoriya Sereda is a sociologist, head coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS) and academic senior advisor to the research group Prisma Ukraïna »War, Migration, Memory«. She initiated and directed the project from 20222023. Prior to this, she was a fellow at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg at FriedrichSchillerUniversität Jena. Since 2020, she has also been a senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a professor at the department of sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University.