Svitlana Matviyenko is Associate Professor of Critical Media Analysis at the School of Communication and Associate Director of the Digital Democracies Institute. Her research and teaching, informed by her studies of science, technology, and history of science, are focused on information and cyberwar, media and environment, critical infrastructure studies and postcolonial theory. Matviyenko’s current work on nuclear cultures and heritage investigates the practices of nuclear terror, weaponization of pollution, and technogenic catastrophes during the Russian war in Ukraine. She has co-edited two collections, The Imaginary App (MIT Press, 2014) and Lacan and the Posthuman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She co-authored Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (Minnesota UP, 2019), a winner of the 2019 book award of the Science Technology and Art in International Relations (STAIR) section of the International Studies Association, and of the Canadian Communication Association 2020 Gertrude J. Robinson book prize. At the Digital Democracies Institute, Matviyenko leads the Cyberwar Topologies and Media, Infrastructure, Environment research streams. She serves on the Advisory Board of Critical Infrastructure Lab (University of Amsterdam).