Research Interests
- Shia Islam
- Islamic Law
- Islam in Europe
- Islam in Post-Soviet Countries
- Comparative Law
- Digital Islam
- Minorities
Education
06/2022
Postgraduate Diploma in Islamic Thought and Knowledge Integration, Institute of Knowledge Integration.
05/2022
PhD in Law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Topic of PhD thesis: Islamic law: features of Shia doctrine. Prof. Dmytro Lukianov – scientific supervisor.
03/2019
Master of Laws, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
06/2017
Bachelor of Laws, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Appointments
03/2024–Present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Culture and Religion of Islam, Goethe University Frankfurt.
07/2022–02/2024
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany.
09/2021–06/2024
Assistant of the Department of Human Rights and Legal Methodology (till Jun. 2023 the Department of Private International Law and Comparative Law), Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Research Experience
11/2023–12/2023
Visiting Research Fellow, RECET (Research Center for the History of Transformations), University of Vienna, Austria.
10/2022– 03/2023
Visiting scholar, Goethe University Frankfurt.
07/2022–08/2022
Visiting Research Fellow, IWM (Institute for Human Sciences), Vienna, Austria.
04/2022–05/2022
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of East European History, University of Vienna, Austria.
Research funding, grants and awards:
- Philipp Schwartz Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. January-February 2024.
- Winner of the competition on best PhD thesis 'Monograph for Grant 2022/2023' organised by the Young Scientists Council at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
- 2nd place at the International Conference 'Imam Hussain and Orientalism', held by Warith al-Anbiya Institute on 12-13 May 2023 in Karbala, Iraq. Title of paper 'Imam Hussein through the eyes of Ukrainian Orientalists.'
- Institute of Knowledge Integration' Research Grant. June-December 2022.
- Human rights in Islamic law, 2014. The best report in the section of Theory of Law at International Scientific Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scientists 'Lomonosov', Moscow, Russia.
