Damian Strycharz received his PhD in politics and international relations from the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include Russia’s foreign policy and relations with the former Soviet states, domestic political sources of foreign policy, and role theory. Damian held positions at the University of Edinburgh and Jagiellonian University. In Hilary 2025 term he was an academic visitor at Russian and East European Studies Department at the University of Oxford. He is the author of ‘Role Theory and Russian Foreign Policy’ published in 2022 by Routledge, and research articles in International Affairs, Foreign Policy Analysis, and Problems of Post-Communism.