Viktor Korolchuk obtained his PhD from the Institute of Biochemistry in Kiev, Ukraine. During the postdoctoral training at Bristol and Cambridge Universities, UK, he has been studying intracellular trafficking and signalling pathways using a range of biochemical, cell biological and genetic approaches.

His scientific interests lies in the area of intracellular protein trafficking and degradation pathways. The current focus of research in his laboratory is autophagy (literally self-eating) where portions of cytoplasm are recruited into intracellular vesicles called autophagosomes and transported for degradation by lysosomal hydrolases.