Lilia Voronkova is a social anthropologist, and a curator. She has been working in the Center for Independent Social Research (CISR, St.-Petersburg, Russia) since 2003 as a researcher, and since 2011 as a producer of art-social science projects (leading projects and curating exhibitions). In 2010 she received a Bundeschancellor scholarship by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and in 2018 became a CEC ArtsLink Arts Leadership Fellow for Contemporary Art curators (in New York, USA). She is a participant and coordinator of more than 20 academic and applied research projects and of 30 interdisciplinary and artistic projects. Now she works in interdisciplinary projects on urban art and urban research, organizes and manages non-formal educational and exchange programs for urban activists and artists. Since 2016 she has been working as an expert at CISR e.V. Berlin.