Historian and educator specializing in Holocaust studies, currently working as an associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at the State University of Economics and Technology in Kryvyi Rih. He received a Master's degree in History and Law from Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University in 2006 and a PhD in History from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2011.

At the university, Roman teaches undergraduate courses on the history of the Holocaust and genocide. His research focuses on the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police and its participation in the Holocaust in the occupied Ukrainian territories (Reich Commissariat Ukraine). He is also researching the implementation of Holocaust policy in Kryvyi Rih. A monograph based on his research is planned for the future.

He was a scholarship holder at Yad Vashem, Yahad-in Unum, and the S. Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies in Vienna. He is the author of more than 60 articles, co-author of three monographs, and compiler of three collections of documents. In 2024, he was awarded a USHMM Virtual Research Fellowship for Ukrainian scholars.

He is currently working on his doctoral project at the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, where he continues to research local cooperation and regional dynamics of mass violence during the Holocaust in occupied Ukraine. He is also a member of the Ukrainian History: A Global Initiative research group, an international project aimed at rethinking and advancing the study of Ukraine's past in a global academic context.

During his stay at the Center for Urban History, Roman will use the Center's resources to work on the text of his doctoral dissertation and plans to visit local archives and libraries.