Elena Sychenko is an associate professor at Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University. She received her PhD degree from the University of Catania in 2016, a master degree with honours from Saint Petersburg State University in 2004. During the last five years she published about twenty articles in peer-reviewed journals in Russian, English, French and Italian and two books in Russian. She is a regular contributor to the French peer-review journal 'Revue de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale', which reviews the conclusions of the UN Human Rights Committee and the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights relevant to labour law and a contributor to ILO LEGOSH system. She is a member of several professional networks, such as CIELO (Comunidad para la investigación y el estudio laboral y ocupacional), Centre of modern labour law (Tblissi State University, Georgia) and a member of the association 'Lawyers for labour rights' (Moscow, Russia).