#WelcomeToZOiS: Political scientist @adoolotkeldieva.bsky.social in now a research affiliate at ZOiS!

Her work centres on state-society relations, intense resource-extractive environments, and post-imperial entanglements in Central Asia.

Find out more: www.zois-berlin.de/en/about-us/...

#WelcomeToZOiS: A recent Sociology & Social Anthropology graduate, Oleksandra Kokhan continues her academic path as a #UNET fellow. She researches unpaid care work by women over 60 in small Ukrainian settlements, showing how they contribute to wartime resilience: www.zois-berlin.de/en/about-us/...

#WelcomeToZOiS: Kostiantyn Fedorenko is a social scientist with a background in political science. From 2019 to 2025, he worked at ZOiS. Now he's returning as a postdoc with a project on the regulation of civil society (@unicologne.bsky.social, funding @volkswagenstiftung.de)

#WelcomeToZOiS: Tetiana Lukeria is a sociologist & researcher at the Kyiv School of Economics & a lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. As a #UNET Fellow, she compares Ukraine's decentralisation process & social cohesion in across the country: www.zois-berlin.de/en/about-us/...

#WelcomeToZOiS: Im März ist Sebastian Hoppe als Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter zum Forschungsschwerpunkt Politische Ökonomie & Integration gekommen. Zuvor promovierte er an der Uni Jena. Ihn beschäftigt vor allem, wie Russland sich ökonomisch an globalen Wandel anpasst.

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#WelcomeToZOiS: Slavic studies scholar Michela Romano from the University of Bologna is our latest visiting researcher. During her stay, she focuses on contemporary Russian & Russophone dissident literatures, especially on migrant writers in Berlin.

Find out more: www.zois-berlin.de/en/about-us/...

#WelcomeToZOiS: During her #UNET fellowship, Oleksandra Keudel, Associate Professor at Kyiv School of Economics, will co-lead a research project on governing diversity in polycentric political systems, particularly #Ukraine before & during Russia’s full-scale war: www.zois-berlin.de/en/about-us/...

#WelcomeToZOiS: From February to March, political scientist & @fgvoficial.bsky.social Postdoc Vicente Ferraro from Brazil is visiting us. He focuses on how Russian occupation impacts teachers, education professionals & local public officials in Ukraine. Read more: www.zois-berlin.de/en/about-us/...

#WelcomeToZOiS: Yulia Abibok, an independent researcher & journalist with a background in History & Jewish Studies, joined ZOiS as a #UNET Fellow this autumn. Her research focuses on the dynamics between local & displaced communities in #Ukraine from 2014 to 2025: www.zois-berlin.de/en/about-us/...

#WelcomeToZOiS: Olena Bogdan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. During her #UNET Fellowship at ZOiS, she explores policy trajectories around Orthodox issues in Ukraine since 2014: www.zois-berlin.de/en/about-us/...

#WelcomeToZOiS: Volodymyr Vakhitov is the Director of the Institute for Behavioral Studies at the American University Kyiv. His #UNET fellowship research is on effect of social cohesion on the integration & employment aspirations of Ukrainian refugees in Germany: www.zois-berlin.de/en/about-us/...