Dr. Maryna Vorotnyuk is an Associate Fellow at RUSI, where she previously held the position of Research Fellow in the International Security Studies team. She works on security developments in the Black Sea region, Russian, Ukrainian, and Turkish foreign policies, and Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Before joining RUSI in January 2021, she worked as a researcher for the Centre for European Neighbourhood Studies at Central European University in Budapest (2017–2020), and as a visiting lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (2015–2017). From 2006 to 2015, she was affiliated with the National Institute for Strategic Studies in Ukraine and the Centre for International Studies at Mechnikov Odesa National University.
Dr. Vorotnyuk has held several international fellowships and authored numerous publications in her field. She speaks Ukrainian, Russian, Slovak, Turkish, and English.