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Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Southern Denmark

My overall research agenda covers the area of peace and security. I am principally interested in analysing processes of policy and normative change, especially in the areas of weaponised Artificial Intelligence, the use of force, United Nations peacekeeping, and more general dynamics of the UN Security Council. I am also the Principal Investigator of an ERC research project on autonomous weapons systems and international norms (AUTONORMS).

Before joining the Centre for War Studies, I was Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent, Canterbury (2015-2020) and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) International Research Fellow (postdoc) with joined affiliation at United Nations University and the University of Tokyo (2013-2015).

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Southern Denmark
  • 2018–2020
    Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Kent
  • 2015–2018
    Lecturer in International Relations, University of Kent
  • 2013–2015
    Postdoctoral research fellow, United Nations University Tokyo & University of Tokyo
  • 2008–2012
    Research fellow, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen

Education

  • 2013 
    University of Tuebingen, Germany, PhD in International Relations

Grants and Contracts

  • 2020
    AUTONORMS
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    European Research Council
  • 2018
    Lethal autonomous weapons systems and changing norms
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

Professional Memberships

  • Academic Council on the United Nations System
  • International Studies Association