He is an assistant professor at the Department of World History at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University. Mykola Hlibishchuk also works as a leading researcher at the Department of Modern Regional History at the Chernivtsi Regional Museum of Local History. He studied history at the Faculty of History, Political Science, and International Relations of the Chernivtsi National University. In 2016, he defended his PhD thesis on the socio-economic policy of the Denikin government in 1918-1920.

In 2020, he was one of the coordinators of a project on the experience of inclusive education in the twentieth century, organized by the University of Augsburg and Chernivtsi National University. During 2020-2021, he was one of the scholars of the research project "Agrarianism: the Selenocentric Phenomenon of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921," supported by the National Research Foundation of Ukraine. Since the fall of 2022, he has been the coordinator of a research team in Chernivtsi working on the creation of a guide to Jewish documentary sources in Chernivtsi archives as part of the program "Research of Jewish Archives of Ukraine" (the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the State Archival Service of Ukraine).

As part of his residency at the Center for Urban History supported by the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM), Mykola Hlibishchuk will work on the spy mania in Bukovyna during the First World War. The key focus will be on studying this phobia in multicultural border regions along the Eastern Front of the Great War of 1914-1918, and on the research perspective of fitting such local examples of particular areas into the more extensive Eastern European history of the First World War.