Head of the Research Department at the human rights organization "Truth Hounds" and a doctoral student in the Department of History at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

His research interests focus on the history of the Soviet Union, with particular attention to key socio-political concepts of the late socialist period. In particular, he studies the semantic transformations of concepts such as "perestroika," "glasnost," "democratization," and others. He has over seven years of experience documenting war crimes and human rights violations in armed conflicts. Together with the "Truth Hounds" team, he investigates contemporary practices of warfare, patterns of international crimes, issues of civilian protection, and international legal accountability.

In his research, Roman focuses on the transformations that sources undergo in the context of mass documentation of war and a focus on potential violations of international humanitarian law. While in the humanities of recent decades the main focus has been on memory, narrative modes, and subjective perspectives, Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine and the focus on justice embedded in numerous documentation initiatives have once again brought to the fore the problem of establishing facts — not as a claim to complete objectivity, but as a methodological and ethical necessity. The logic of testimony, centered on conveying lived experience, and the logic of evidence, which requires structure, metadata, and verification, do not merely coexist but mutually shape one another.

During his residency at the Center for Urban History as part of the LivArch scholarship program for documentation and archiving, Roman will analyze how contemporary practices of documenting war crimes organize this relationship, how the requirement for evidentiary validity influences the structure of the source, and what consequences this has for understanding the facts and for future historical writing.