Vasyl Erastov is an Assistant Professor at the Insurance, banking and risk-management department of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. His Ph.D. degree was obtained in 2019 on the public defense of 'Internet-insurance on Ukrainian insurance services market' thesis. Since 2016 the main scope of scientific interest is behavioral discrepancies and innovations in different financial markets. His field of expertise covers insurance, risk management, insurance marketing, behavioral finance, business intelligence, and artificial intelligence.

He has more than 48 publications, including textbooks and articles mainly concerned with innovations in the insurance market. The overall teaching experience is more than 10 years for Master and Bachelor degree students and financial sector representatives (‘Behavioral Finance’, ‘Financial risk management’, ‘Information technologies in insurance’). In 2021 he took part in two international scientific conferences that were held by Lithuanian and Slovakian universities, obtaining participation certificates. Paper presented at the Lithuanian conference was awarded as the best paper in the Contemporary Financial Management section He possesses a certificate in ‘Practical aspects of banking risks assessment’ from the central bank of Ukraine - the National Bank of Ukraine. He has more than 7 years of experience in the real sector, including the insurance industry, IT development, and Social Media Marketing. He is a Team Lead in a big IT development company.