A political philosopher, specialized in concerns of global health justice (University of Augsburg). After completing her foundational education at the Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic), she has received her PhD in Philosophy from Macquarie University in Sydney (Australia). 

At present, she investigates concerns of oppression, vulnerability, refusal, empowerment, justice, and solidarity, the ethics and epistemology of health technologies and interventions. The 2024 paper (En)Countering Epistemic Imperialism: A Critique of 'Westsplaining' and Coloniality in Dominant Debates on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine she led in collaboration with Olga Burlyuk, Míla O’Sullivan and Aizada Arystanbek, was awarded the 2025 B. Brodie Prize, the 2024 Honourable mention in the Heldt Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) and the 2024 Best Article Prize by the American Association of Ukrainian Studies. 

For her work on gender and health, she received the Max Charlesworth Prize in Bioethics (2015) from the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law. She has held a number of international research fellowships, including the Caroline Miles Scholarship at the University of Oxford (UK), and residencies at the Australian National University, Brocher Foundation (Switzerland) and the Hastings Centre (USA). She is the founder of the Central and Eastern European Feminist Research Network and a co-founder of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation. 

During the residency at the Center for Urban History, she will conduct background research for her book Nothing About Us Without Us: Refusal as Theory and Praxis, exploring the refusal of colonial, extractivist and unqualified research on Europe’s East and fellow parts of the world directly affected by Russian imperialism and colonialism. Through this book project, she will be further problematising the persistent hierarchical East-West divide, which has centered the West as a source of ‘objective’ and reliable knowledge, while rendering the East as subaltern, unknowing and invisible as a site of knowledge production.