Daria Gritsenko holds a BA in Political Science and MA in European Legal Studies. She defended her PhD in Social and Public Policy at the University of Helsinki in 2014. From 2018 to 2024, she served as Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and Associate Professor in Digital Social Science at the University of Helsinki.  

Daria Gritsenko's research has been funded by the Research Council of Finland, NOS-HS, Kone Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the European Research Council (ERC). In 2018–2019, she was a Fellow of the prestigious Fulbright Arctic Initiative and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at George Washington University. In 2021, she received the Nils Klim Prize for “outstanding research contributions in the intersection between political science, environmental studies and digital humanities”.

Daria's central research question has been for almost two decades: How does governance function in different contexts? Her work examines how institutions, technologies, and policies shape collective outcomes. Whether analyzing environmental governance in shipping, digitalization of public sector, or energy innovations in marginalized Arctic communities, her work seeks to illuminate the complex ways in which technology intersects with political systems and ideals of democratic equity.