PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY/MEMBERSHIPS (SCIENTIFIC AND EXPERT) :

1.    External scientific collaborator of the Faculty of Law of the University of Fribourg (on voluntary basis)

2.    Expert of the UNESCO Chair "Human Rights, Peace, Democracy, Tolerance and International Understanding" at the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA)"

3.    Leading Scientific Collaborator of the Department of the Public Legal Studies of the Institute of Law-Making and Scientific-Legal Expertise at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

4.    Leading Researcher of the Department of International and Comparative Law of the V.M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (on voluntary basis)

5.    Member of the Doctoral Council of the Research Institute of Law-Making and Scientific-Legal Expertise at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

6.    Official rapporteur in the thesis defence procedure in the specialties "Law", "International Law"

7.    Expert cooperation with international organizations (communication through the UNESCO Chair "Human Rights, Peace, Democracy, Tolerance and International Understanding" at the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA)")

8.    International Bioethics Committee (UNESCO)

9.    Committee for Bioethics of the Council of Europe. 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:

1.      Doctor of Legal Sciences (Doctor habilitatus), specialty 12.00.11 "International Law". Thesis subject (monograph): "International legal regulation of the human right to life in the context of bioethics", 2021 (at the Institute of State and Law V.M. Koretsky of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

2.      Candidate in Legal Sciences (Candidate in Law), specialty 12.00.01 "Theory and History of the State and of Law, History of Legal and Political Studies". Thesis: "Formation and development of Orthodox canon law in Ukraine", 2011 (National Pedagogical Drahomanov University).

EDUCATION:

1.       National Pedagogical Drahomanov University, specialty "Jurisprudence", qualification "Professor of Jurisprudence. Jurist", 2003(Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Scholar for Outstanding Academic Achievement)

2.       Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, specialty "Finance", qualification "Economist", 2005

INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATES:

The European Program on Human Rights and Legal Professional Education (HELP), established by the Council of Europe and the European Union:

1.      Certified HELP Tutor, January 2024.

2.      Course "Prohibition of Ill-treatment". Statement of accomplishment, August 2023.

3.      Course "Human rights in the Armed Forces". Statement of accomplishment, July 2023.

4.      Course "Violence against women and domestic violence". Statement of accomplishment, July 2023.

5.      Course "Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights". Statement of accomplishment, April 2021, December 2020.

6.      Course "Right to the integrity of the person (Bioethics)". Certificate of achievement, January 2018.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Preparation and support of cases before the European Court of Human Rights

COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES (VOLUNTEERING):

1.    Participation in the work of NGOs (in consultative statues with the ECOSOC) as an expert in human rights, Geneva, UN (since November 2022)

2.    Volunteer at the Geneva Red Cross Day Center (since August 2022)

3.    Legal assistance to Ukrainian citizens in Switzerland (since June 2022). Assistance for Children's camp "Era Band Camp" - for the children of Heroes of Ukraine (Leysin, Switzerland)

4.    Participation in the work of the lawyers' NGO "We are from Ukraine" in order to provide legal assistance to Ukrainians affected by Russian aggression (preparation and support of cases before the ECtHR) (since June 2022)

5.    Guest expert of the Civil Movement "All together" in the field of human rights and bioethics https://vsirazom.ua/cabinet/residents/ostrovska-bogdana/ (since February 2022)

6.    Expert legal assistance to the NGO "All Ukraine" within the framework of the public initiative "ProLife Ukraine" (since 2020)

7.    Volunteer of the charitable foundations "OVES", "Leleker" (assistance to the injured in the anti-terrorist operation, support for environmental initiatives to preserve the environment) (since 2014)

AWARD AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

Letter of thanks from the Vatican Apostolic Library (2021)

Scholar of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for outstanding academic achievement (in jurisprudence)