Kateryna is a doctoral candidate at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam. Her doctoral thesis investigates the transformation of Ukrainian football and its elites after the collapse of the Soviet Union. She holds an MA in History and 20th-century Politics from the University of Jena (Germany) and was the recipient of the International Parliamentary Scholarship of the German Bundestag, and interned at the German Football Association. Kateryna speaks Ukrainian, German, Russian, English and basic Spanish.