He holds a PhD degree from the University of Oslo (2006), with a thesis on Russia’s democratization movement from the 1990s. He was the Assistant Director of the Norwegian Institue of Foreign Affairs (NUPI) during 2006-2010 and a senior researcher, before assuming his position at the University of Oslo from January 2013. Geir Flikke is currently head of the Norwegian Research Council project “NEPORUS”, analyzing the changing framework for social organization and social mobilization in Russia. Furthermore, he teaches courses in history, nation-building and politics in Russia and Eurasia at the University of Oslo. For more information on the “NEPORUS” project, please see here.