Vera Mironova is Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. She received her PhD in

Political Science from the University of Maryland and for three years was an

International Security Fellow at the Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and

International Affairs of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard

University. Dr. Mironova, whose research explores individual level behavior in

conflict environments, has conducted fieldwork in numerous active conflict zones

and post-conflict regions all over the world (including Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine,

DRCongo, Sudan among others), and from 2016 to 2017, she was embedded

with Iraqi Special Operations Forces during the Mosul Operation. Her scholarship

has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Foreign

Policy, BBC, and The Boston Globe. She has also served as a commentator for a

number of major media outlets, including The New York Times, the Associated Press,

Washington Post, and Vice News.