Dr Ivan Romashchenko is an MSCA YUFE4 Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cyprus, where he works on the project 'Challenging Strategies: Related Party Transactions in the EU'. From 2023 to 2025, he was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, focusing on 'Digitalisation and Human Rights in Company Law'. Between 2021 and 2023, he served as a Senior Researcher at the LegalTech Centre of Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, within the project 'Digitalisation of Company Law: Harmonisation Challenges and Opportunities in Selected Jurisdictions (DigiCoL)'.

Before these research positions, he gained over ten years of experience teaching and conducting research in company law, civil law, private international law, and cultural rights as an Assistant Professor and later as an Associate Professor at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2009–2011, 2012–2022). He also taught business law at the American University of the Middle East (2022) and has delivered guest lectures at NOVA University Lisbon (2024) and the American University of Iraq–Baghdad (2024).

In 2020, he defended his PhD thesis, Related Party Transactions and Corporate Groups: When Eastern Europe Meets the West, at Leiden University. The thesis, which provided a comparative analysis of Dutch, German, Polish, and EU company law, was subsequently published by Wolters Kluwer. His doctoral research was supervised by Steef M. Bartman (Maastricht University/Leiden University) and Arkadiusz Radwan (Vytautas Magnus University, Allerhande Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences).

He has also been a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg on several occasions (2016, 2017, 2023).