Ivan Vuković rođen je 17.09.1984. u Podgorici, đe je završio osnovnu i srednju školu. Osnovne i specijalističke studije završio je, sa visokim prosjekom, na Fakultetu političkih nauka Univerziteta Crne Gore (studijski program: Međunarodni odnosi i diplomatija). Post-diplomske studije završio je 2008. godine na Univerzitetu Leiden, Holandija (Naziv teze: European Integration and Political Competition in Montenegro: The Determinants of Party Consensus). U septembru 2009. godine započeo je doktorske studije na Centralno-evropskom univerzitetu u Budimpešti (radni naziv disertacije: Post-communist Political Transition of the Western Balkans: Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia between Yugoslav Past and European Future, mentor: Zsolt Enyedi). Oblasti interesovanja: procesi političke tranzicije i demokratizacije, hibridni režimi i novi autoritarizam, Zapadni Balkan i Centralna-Istočna Evropa nakon Hladnog rata.

Stručni radovi:

Članci:

• "Temeljne vrijednosti pravnog poretka Evropske unije", Crna Gora u XXI stoljeću – U eri kompetitivnosti, Podgorica: Crnogorska akademija nauka i umjetnosti, Knjiga 73, Sveska 1, 2010.
• "The Post-communist Political Transition of Montenegro: Democratization Prior to Europeanization", Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, November 2010.
• "Diverging Party Outcomes in Hybrid Regimes: The Cases of Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro", Romanian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter 2011.
• "The Socialist Party of Serbia 1990-2000: Political Impotence of the Organizational Omnipotence", Centre for Southeast European Studies, Graz University, Working Paper no. 3, August 2012.

Prikazi knjiga:

• "Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Exploitation in Post-Communist Democracies", by Anna Grzymala-Busse, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol. 2, No. 2, November 2010.

Prezentacije na naučnim konferencijama:

• "The Post-Communist Political Transition of the Western Balkans: Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia between Yugoslav Past and European Future", 5^th CEU Annual Conference, Budapest, Hungary, April 2010.
• "European Integration and Political Competition in Montenegro: The Determinants of Party Consensus", 6^th CEU Conference in Social Science, Budapest, Hungary, April 2010.
• "The Dynamics of Hybrid Regimes: Theoretical Overview", 6^th CEU Annual Conference, Budapest, Hungary, April 2011.
• "The Structure of Power in Hybrid Regimes: Institutionalized vs. Personalized", 6^th ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 2011.
• "Diverging Party Outcomes in Hybrid Regimes: The Cases of Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro", 4th Graduate Network Conference, Berlin, Germany, March 2012.
• "The Socialist Party of Serbia: The Pillar of Sand of the Serbian Hybrid Regime", 7th Annual Doctoral Conference, Budapest, Hungary, April 2012. 
• "Political Dynamics of the Post-Communist Montenegro: One-Party Show", 4th ECPR Graduate Student Conference, Bremen, Germany, July 2012.

Gostujuća predavanja:

• "The Structure of Power in Hybrid Regimes in Southeastern Europe: Institutionalized vs. Personalized", Center for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, November 2011.
• "On Party Outcomes in Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Serbia", Fakultet političkih znanosti, Univerzitet u Zagrebu, april 2012.

Grantovi:

• "Coimbra Group Scholarship Programme for Young Researchers from Eastern Neighboring Countries", Research at the University of Graz, October-November 2011.
• "Process Tracing Methodology", 6thECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 2011.