holds a Joint PhD (Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Experimental Approaches to Language and Brain, with universities in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and Australia) and is an expert in speech and language therapy and neurogenic communication disorders. She has nearly 20 years of academic experience and is the founder and chair of the Ukrainian Society of Speech and Language Therapists. She is a Fulbright Faculty Development Program fellow, Erasmus Mundus fellow, affiliated member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow at Macquarie University (Australia). She has authored and co-authored research articles in leading international journals, including Aphasiology and the International Journal of Speech and Language Therapy, focusing on word retrieval in people with aphasia and the implementation of evidence-based approaches in speech and language therapy. She has also contributed to international projects in psycholinguistics and neuroscience, exploring semantic processing and rehabilitation of communication disorders. Since 2017, she has been advancing the establishment of speech and language therapy as a regulated profession in Ukraine, working with the Ministry of Health and WHO on national rehabilitation standards and protocols. Since 2022, she has collaborated with the Charitable Foundation “Patients of Ukraine” and the War Trauma Rehabilitation initiative, integrating speech and language therapy into clinical practice, educational programs, and rehabilitation policy development.