Member

Ivan Savchuk, a former researcher at the Ukrainian National Defense University in Kyiv, is an expert in economic geography.

He is currently pursuing his research in France, at the Géographie-cités laboratory. He participates in the Franco-German program Limspaces (2021 – 2024).

Geography studies

1999-2003 Doctorate in Geography. Institute of Geography, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Dissertation: “Social and economic bases of foreign trade development between Ukraine and the member countries of the European Union”.
1993-1998 Master’s Degree in Geography. Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University, Faculty of Geography.

Other courses
1997-2000 Italian language course at the Società Dante Alighieri, Kyiv. Comprehensive course of Italian culture and language. Training in interpreting
1995-1997 French language course, Institut Français d’Ukraine, Kyiv. Comprehensive course in French culture and language. Training in interpreting

Professional activities in France
– Contract researcher for the “PAUSE – Ukraine” program from June 2022 to the end of July 2024.
Assigned to the UMR Géographie-cités, Condorcet campus (EHESS and ANR funding).

in Ukraine (Kyiv):
– Lecturer and researcher at the National Defense University of Ukraine, 2020-2022
– Senior Researcher, Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences (IGAS), 2007-2019
– Junior Researcher, IGAS, 2004-2006
– Doctoral student and research assistant, IGAS, 1998-2003.

Participation in research projects (recent activities)
2024-2025: L’exil au quotidien. Trajectoires genrées, recompositions familiales et processus d’installation des Ukrainiens en France, financed by the Red Cross, scientific director Camille Schmoll (EHESS)
2021-2024: Member of the Franco-German research project LIMSPACES, directed by B. von Hirschhausen (UMR Géographie-cités, Aubervilliers) and S. von Löwis (ZOIS, Berlin).
2013-2015: Correspondent in Ukraine for the scientific association “International Research Association for Urban Studies in Post-Soviet Space”, coordinated by the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig.
2013-2015: Member of the GDRI “Urban Spaces and Networks” (cooperation between the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences and the CNRS). Ukrainian correspondent of the GDRI.
2012: Ukrainian coordinator of the project “Transboundary Cooperation and Sustainable Management in the Dniester River Basin: Phase III – Implementation of the Program of Action” (OSCE competition).
Member of editorial boards of scientific journals – Bulletin of Kiev Taras Shevchenko National University (Geography) https://visnyk-geo.knu.ua/?page_id=24&lang=uk – Constructive Geography and Rational Use of Natural Resources https://constructgeo.knu.ua/editorial.html

2020-2022 Teacher-researcher at the National Defense University of Ukraine
2011-2015 Pereyaslav-Khmelnitski State Pedagogical University (Gregory Skovoroda University), Visiting Associate Professor of Human Geography
2006-2010 Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Senior Researcher at the Center for Linguistic and Analytical Studies
2016 Co-direction (with Professor L. Coudroy of Lille, Université Louis Lumière Lyon) of the Master’s thesis in Geography “French Direct Investment in Ukraine” defended by Antoine Frerejean

2024 : One-month scholarship of the DDR Europe médiane (by invitation of the UMR EVS in Lyon). Speaker: Lydia Coudroy from Lille.
2022- 2024: Host in France, in the framework of the PAUSE – urgence Ukraine program, beneficiary of a 26-month research contract co-financed by the ANR and the EHESS, integrated in the Franco-German ANR-DFG Limspaces project and assigned to the UMR Géographie-cités.
2019 : one-month research internship at the UMR Géographie-cités within the framework of an excellence grant awarded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2015 : one-month research stay at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig (Germany)