Shirak Safaryan is a PhD candidate in Political and Administrative Sciences at the University of Wrocław and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Oxford (DPIR), where he conducts research on the European Union’s foreign policy. He holds Master’s degrees in International Relations from the University of Warsaw and Université catholique de Louvain.
In 2026, he is also a PhD Research Fellow at Maynooth University within the Arqus Mentoring Programme. His academic mobility includes a one-year PhD Research Fellowship at Charles University and a Guest Researcher appointment at Ghent University, and he has conducted fully funded research at Sciences Po (Paris).
His research interests include EU foreign and security policy (CFSP), EU–Russia relations, the Eastern Partnership, and security and integration dynamics in the South Caucasus. He has published on EU integration, government policy, and EU–Russia relations in peer-reviewed academic journals, and he serves as a peer reviewer for the International Political Science Review (SAGE Publications).
Safaryan regularly presents at international conferences and seminars, including the 28th World Congress of Political Science (Seoul, 2025) and the Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA) Annual Conference (Kaunas, 2024), among others. He has received multiple competitive grants and awards, including NAWA’s Research Grant Competition for Doctoral Candidates, University of Wrocław internal/young researcher grants, and a Visegrad fellowship.
Alongside his academic work, he has professional experience as a Lecturer in European Integration at the University of Wrocław and in public-sector/policy-facing roles.