Professor Rusudan Makhachashvili
Rusudan Makhachashvili, PhD is a Ukrainian Linguist, Digital Education Scholar, and Full Professor serving as Head of the Germanic Philology Department at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, a European Digital Education Hub Squad Member for the European Commission, and a Founding Member of the International Association for Transdisciplinary Education.
With over two decades of experience in philology, digital linguistics, and educational innovation, Rusudan is recognized for her pioneering interdisciplinary research at the intersection of language, technology, and digital education policy across Europe and Ukraine.
Rusudan is a Doctor Habilitated of Philology and a specialist in English and Spanish, whose primary research interests encompass neology and cyberterminology of European languages, digital linguistics, and the linguophilosophic dimensions of cyberspace.
She has authored over 130 publications and has been cited over 270 times on ResearchGate across topics spanning AI-enhanced education, emoji semiotics, computational language modeling, and transdisciplinary communication.
Her seminal monographs include Linguophilosophic Parameters of English Innovations in Technosphere published by Cambridge Scholars Publishers and Models and Digital Diagnostics Tools for the Innovative Polylingual Logosphere of Computer Being Dynamics published by Peter Lang in Berlin in 2020. Read Transformative, AI-Enhanced, Transdisciplinary Digital Educational Communication for Resilience.
As Head of the Germanic Philology Department at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University since 2015, Rusudan oversees programs in European languages including French, Italian, Spanish, English, and German, as well as Oriental languages such as Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.
She is the Editor-in-Chief of Synopsis: Text. Context. Media, an academic journal published by the university, and a member of the editorial boards of multiple international journals, including the International Journal of Research in E-learning and the International Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Culture.
She has previously served as Vice-Dean for Research and led the Young Researchers Council, shaping interdisciplinary research policies and academic best practices at the university. Read Linguistics and Philosophy of Cyberspace.
Rusudan’s engagement with European institutions is extensive. She currently serves on the European Digital Education Hub as a Squad Member for Main Drivers on EU Level for AI in Education since October 2025, and as a Squad Member for Future Classroom since June 2025. She is a recognized evaluator for individual grant projects under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe frameworks for Advanced Digital Skills.
Between 2016 and November 2018, Rusudan was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellow at the European Commission. She served as head of the observer institution group for the Horizon 2020 ELEXIS project and contributed as an expert staff member for the European Commission’s 7th Framework Project IRNet, focusing on ICT, e-learning, and intercultural competencies
Rusudan has also served as an expert for the Ministry of Education of Ukraine in e-learning platform development, and has advised Ukrainian universities on developing master’s curricula in e-government under a program by the Estonian Foreign Ministry and Tallinn University of Technology.
Rusudan is an active member of the COST Action ENEOLI (European Network on Observing and Studying Language Innovation, CA22126), where she serves as an MC representative and participates in Working Groups 1, 2, and 4. She is a member of the Digital Humanism Initiative, the international collaborative network based at TU Wien that seeks to ensure technology development remains centered on human interests.
In September 2024, she participated in the International School of Digital Humanism at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning of Vienna University of Technology, presenting her applied research on AI-powered communication tools for European Commission institutions. Read Emoji Explication in Digital Communication: Logical-Phenomenological Experiment.
Rusudan has participated in academic mobility through the Erasmus+ program, including exchanges at the University of Palermo in Italy in November 2024 and the University of Cadiz in Spain. In 2025, she presented her digital lexicographic project Glossary of War at the Ukrainian-Bavarian Workshop on Multilingualism at the University of Regensburg, demonstrating how linguistics and digital technologies can address socially relevant issues arising from the conflict in Ukraine.
Rusudan earned her Habilitated Doctor of Philology degree from Zaporizhzhya National University with her habilitation thesis titled English Logosphere of Cyberspace Dynamics, focusing on the linguistic philosophy of Germanic languages.
She earned her Candidate of Philology degree (pre-doctoral) from Zaporizhzhya National University with her thesis titled Linguophilosophic Parameters of English Innovations in the Sphere of New Technologies. She earned her Master’s Degree of Science in Philology with honors in 2004 and her Bachelor’s Degree in Philology with honors in 2003, both from Zaporizhzhya National University, qualifying as a university teacher of English Language and Literature and a teacher of Spanish.
Her early career included positions as Junior Faculty Member and Assistant Professor at the Theory and Practice of Translation Chair at Zaporizhzhya National University, where she also served as Dean’s Assistant in Academic Research. Read Digital Interoperability of Foreign Languages Education.
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