My current research interests move in two overlapping directions. The first concerns imperial and post-/neo-imperial histories of Eastern Europe, with a focus on Ukraine and the northern Black Sea steppe. The second deals with entangled histories of science, (bio)politics, food, and animals in 19th- and 20th-century Europe.

In 2017, I received my PhD from Södertörn University with a dissertation titled "Negotiating Imperial Rule: Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth Century Black Sea Steppe."

During my postdoctoral project ( 2019 – 2022), titled "Vegetarianism in the Russian Empire: Ideas, Practices, Identities and Legacies, 1860s–1920s," I explored dietary reform in the late Russian Empire. The study revealed, among other things, how vegetarian activism emerged, the diversity of ideas, motivations, and actions behind it, and why and how certain individuals became activists.

I am currently involved in two ongoing projects:

• "To Eat or Not to Eat? Human Health, Scientific Knowledge, and the Biopolitics of Meat in Eastern Europe, 1860s–1939" – a project where I serve as Principal Investigator (PI), funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen) (2022–2026).
• Entangled Borderlands: Mapping Intra-Imperial Connections for a New Spatial History of the Late Romanov Empire External link.– a collaborative project with Catherine Gibson as PI, funded by the Estonian Research Council (2025–2029).

Since completing my PhD, I have taught a number of history courses at various levels and institutions, and have supervised students in their thesis work. I am currently serving as co-supervisor for a PhD student in history.

I am also a co-founder of the research group EnvHistUA. The EnvHistUA Research Group aims to encourage scholars to engage with Ukraine’s environmental history that moves beyond disaster-centric perspectives, challenges imperial and Soviet legacies, and amplifies local knowledge.