Svitlana Matviyenko is an Associate Professor of Critical Media Analysis in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Her research, situated at the intersection of science and technology studies and the history of science, examines disinformation practices, cyberwar, popular mobilization, critical infrastructure, and the psychoanalytic frameworks of Lacan, as well as postcolonial and decolonial theory.

Matviyenko’s current work focuses on nuclear cultures and heritage, nuclear colonialism, technogenic catastrophes, and the weaponization of pollution, including evolving forms of nuclear terror emerging during the Russian war in Ukraine and within wider geopolitical dynamics. She is recognized for her expertise on the political economy and cultural logics of cyberwarfare, the political ecology of war, and the environmental history of conflict.