Dr Ed Stoddard is a Marie Curie Fellow based in the Institute of Law, Politics and Development (DIRPOLIS) and the Emerging Research on International Security (ERIS) Group at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa. He is funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions scheme. He is on research leave from the University of Portsmouth where he is a Principal Lecturer in International Relations.
Ed Stoddard's research focuses on violent non-state and proto-state actors, the changing character of warfare and authoritarianism and security.