She holds a PhD degree from the University of Oslo (2009) and has been an International Security Program Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2011-2012) and a guest instructor at Yale University (2011, co-taught the graduate seminar "Human Rights in the Twentieth Century and Beyond" with Professor Jay Winter). Vik chairs the International Studies Program Committee, a multidisciplinary bachelor program, and serves on the Program Committee of the MA-program Peace and Conflict Studies.