Lilia Tomchuk is the 2021-2022 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She is a PhD candidate in History, holding the Jürg Breuninger Doctoral Scholarship at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is currently working on her dissertation project on the experiences of Jewish women in Romanian-occupied Transnistria during the Holocaust.

For her research she has been awarded the German-Ukrainian Historians' Commission Fellowship (2021) and the Yad Vashem Grant for Doctoral Students and Young Scholars (2021). Previously she studied History and Spanish at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main to become a secondary school teacher. She wrote her thesis on sexual violence against Jewish women in Ukrainian territory from 1941–1945, based on eyewitness accounts from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, for which she received an award from the Fritz Bauer Institute.