Vitaliy Lytvyn is a Ukrainian political scientist, Doctor of Political Sciences, Habilitated Doctor, Professor, and Acting Head of the Department of Political Science at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the same university in 2007 and worked as an analyst at the Center for Political Studies and later as an editor at the Express Publishing Group. In 2010, he defended his PhD dissertation “Comparative Analysis of Government Stability in Central European Countries and Ukraine”. Since 2011, he has held academic positions at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv – as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor (from 2015), and Full Professor (from 2020; academic title awarded in 2021).

In 2018, he earned the ScD degree with the dissertation “Institutional, Procedural, Political and Behavioral Attributes and Varieties of Semi-Presidential System of Government: Comparative Analysis on the Example of European Countries”. In 2023, he obtained a Habilitated Doctor degree from the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland).

Professor Lytvyn’s research focuses on political institutions, party and electoral systems, semi-presidentialism, political regimes, inter-institutional relations, constitutional engineering. He has authored over 100 academic publications, including in Web of Science and Scopus journals, and teaches courses on political regimes, systems of government, and comparative political institutions. He also heads scientific programs at the Center for Political Studies. Since 2025, he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the National Council of Ukraine for Science and Technology Development.