Dr Viktoriia (Victoria) Vdovychenko is an internationally recognised expert on European security, defence innovation, and Ukraine’s relations with the EU and NATO. 

She is Joint Programme Leader of the Future of Ukraine Programme at the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge, where she leads research at the intersection of the post-war security architecture and Ukraine’s role in it. Her work focuses on strategic trilemmas in European security, deterrence by innovation, multi-domain warfare, and the political economy of reconstruction. She regularly advises policymakers and engages with the strategic and academic communities across the UK, Europe, and Ukraine.

Dr Vdovychenko is the co-author of multiple high-impact policy papers, including

“Ukraine Scenarios 2032” (2025), “Firewalling the Future” (2025), “Winning the Future: Strategies for Resilient Ukraine and Europe” (2025), Reinforcing the Legal Framework for Seizing the Russian Assets (2025),   “Ukraine under Zelenskyy: Domestic, Foreign and Security Policy in Flux” (2022),  “Willingness to fight for Ukraine: Lessons for the Baltic states” (2022), “Resilience Paper Review” (2022) and “Shaping up social resistance: Zelenskyy’s approach to rearranging Ukraine” (2023).

She holds an MSc and PhD in Foreign Policy and World History from the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine and is actively involved in executive education, policy training, and high-level international dialogue.