Andrii Portnov

In 2005, Portnov defended his PhD (kandydats`ka dysertaciia) at the Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Lviv (supervisor Prof. Yaroslav Isaievych).

He was an editor of the academic journal "Ukraїna Moderna" (2006–2010),[3] in 2012 he co-founded and co-edited (until 2017) the intellectual web portal Historians.in.ua.

[9] Prof. Portnov holds membership in the Ukrainian PEN Club[10] and the German Association for East European Studies (DGO).

His scholar texts were published in Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, English, German, French, Japanese, Czech, Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Belarusian.

In the years of 2011–2016 Portnov produced 99 videoblogs on different issues of international humanities (including interviews with Annie Appelboin, Volodymyr Kulyk, Yuri Slezkine, Maria Lewicka, Alvydas Nikzentaitis, Gerhard Simon, and others) for the web portal net.abimperio.net (does not exist anymore).