She graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture and received her PhD in Cultural Studies (in 2017). She is the head of the Museum Sector of the National Science Center "Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology" of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Iryna is a specialist in museology and monument studies. Her career involves cultural heritage management, the development of cultural and creative industries in the city based on heritage interpretation, the creation of new forms of museum communication, and the development and implementation of revitalization projects.

During her residency at the Center for Urban History, supported by the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) she will study the newly discovered wall newspapers of the second half of the 1940s and 1980s from the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology. They are a unique source of information for studying the history of everyday life of the leading Ukrainian center of physical science and for understanding the specifics of the formation of the Pyatikhatka Academic Town around it.