Candidate of political science, professor at the European University at Saint Petersburg.
[3][4] Since 2012 — Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki,[5] head of the research direction "Authoritarian market society as a challenge" at the Centre for Russian Studies at the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki.
Candidate of political science (Saint Petersburg State University, 1998), thesis topic — "Transformation of the political regime and democratic opposition in post-communist Russia: analysis of modern transitological concepts.
Participates in various popular science projects, is engaged in journalism.
[7] According to Russian political scientist Valery Fedorov [Wikidata], Vladimir Gelman is the most cited Russian political scientist in the world.