Viktoriia is a PhD candidate at Central European University (CEU) in Vienna and senior analyst at Government Transparency Institute. In her independent research, Viktoriia works on clientelism and electoral corruption in Russia, with the focus on identifying strategies of the ruling party on vote buying and electoral inducement.

Viktoriia works with corruption risk indicators in public procurement and asset declarations, as well as beneficial ownership analysis. There are multiple projects she is involved in, including participation in the Civil Society Advancing Beneficial Ownership Transparency Group on beneficial ownership data and countering anti-money laundering; country-specific research on corruption for the World Bank; and analysis of regional corruption trends in public procurement for a project supported by the fund operator for the European Economic Area (EEA) and Norway Grants Fund for Regional Cooperation, and a data scraping project for Thomson Reuters. She has worked as a teaching assistant at CEU on multiple courses, mostly related to research methods and design, impact evaluation, and political economy. She is interested in various policy evaluation techniques.