She is a French sociologist, professor at the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris) and a researcher at the Center for East European, Russian, Caucasian and Central Asian Studies (CERCEC). She is also a member of the organizing committee of the annual Danyliw Seminar in Ukrainian Studies (University of Ottawa, Canada).

Her research focuses on forms of civic solidarity, care, and corporeality during Russia's war against Ukraine. Her ethnographic study of women's experiences of volunteering and caring for wounded soldiers at the Kharkiv Military Hospital during 2014-2022 will be published in June 2025 under the title Citoyennes soignantes. Guerre, femmes et fabrication du commun en Ukraine (Caring citizens. War, women, and the creation of the common in Ukraine) by Editions de la MSH.

Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, Ioulia Shukan has been exploring the relationship between war, its bodily consequences, and forms of solidarity with military and civilian amputees, analyzing global issues of building a sustainable system of prosthetics and rehabilitation, as well as rethinking solidarity with people with disabilities and inclusive societies in extreme times.

During the residency, as a fellow of the Center for Urban History and INDEX, Ioulia Shukan will continue to collect individual experiences of life after amputation and document the bodily consequences of the Russia's war against Ukraine, as well as the structural reconfigurations taking place in Ukraine in the areas of medical care, prosthetics, rehabilitation, and inclusion.