Alexandra Yatsyk is a Future Russia Fellow with the Democratic Resilience Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).   

She also serves as a researcher at the CNRS-University of Lille and as an Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po, France. 

Her track record includes cooperation with various European and American universities, think tanks and foundations, including Free Russia Foundation (USA), the University of Tartu (Estonia), Uppsala Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Sweden), Polish Institute of Advanced Studies (Poland), Vienna Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Austria), and the GWU Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (USA). 

She is the author of numerous articles and books on post-Soviet nation-building, illiberalism, Russian-speaking communities and Russian malign influence in Europe and beyond, including co-authored the "Critical biopolitics of the Post-Soviet: from Population to Nation" (Lexington, 2019), "Lotman’s Cultural Semiotics and the Political" (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017), "Celebrating borderlands in a Wider Europe: Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Estonia, and Georgia" ( Nomos, 2016), the co-edited "Mega-Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), "New and Old Vocabularies of International Relations After the Ukraine Crisis" (Routledge, 2016), "Boris Nemtsov and Russian Politics: Power and Resistance" (Ibidem Verlag & Columbia University, 2018), and many others.