Yuliya Krylova-Grek is an Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine, an affiliated researcher at Uppsala University, and Director of the NGO Institute of Psycholinguistic Research.

Her research focuses on sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, media and communication studies. She is also a forensic linguistics expert, providing expert analysis of media content and public discourse in legal cases.

Professor Krylova-Grek has held several international academic positions, including Visiting Professor at the University of Hradec Králové, researcher at Uppsala University, and Guest Scholar at MacEwan University. She has also been a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS, Sofia), KIU (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut), European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).

Cirrently she is a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the City College of New York with the project “Linguistics on Trial, Linguistics in Media: Identifying and Prosecuting Incitement to Genocide (Ukraine Case Study)”. The project examines verbal aggression in public discourse from both legal and linguistic perspectives. In the context of modern information warfare, public statements that may be interpreted as calls for genocide raise difficult moral and legal questions. However, determining whether a statement constitutes incitement to genocide requires careful linguistic and legal analysis. Such statements are often conflated with other forms of incitement and hate speech, even though these categories need to be clearly distinguished. The project therefore seeks to identify linguistic markers that can help establish whether a public statement constitutes incitement to genocide and distinguish it from other forms of verbal aggression in legal practice.