Dr Coline Maestracci holds a PhD in political science from the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. She is currently an associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research institute and a lecturer at Université libre de Bruxelles. Her thesis focused on the engagement and disengagement trajectories of Ukrainian volunteer combatants in the Russo-Ukrainian war. Her postdoctoral research focuses on the effects of war on combatants’ families. Her qualitative research is characterized by an ethnographic and micro sociological approach.