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