Master of History (1993), PhD in Political Science (1996) of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. In 1994-1998 he studied at the Higher School of Social Studies in Warsaw. During 2004-2009 he was the Head of the Political Science Department of the National University of Ostroh Academy, where he established the Center for Political Studies in 2010. He has become the Kennan Institute scholar under the Fulbright research program. Dr. Matsiyevsky has also gained scholarships under the Erasmus Mundus (Academy of Humanities, Pultusk, Poland) and the Carnegie (University of California, Berkeley) programs.