About

Hi! I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.

In my research, I am interested in questions around how problems of international politics become to be seen as such in the first place. I pursue these questions with a specific focus on ideas of war and its prevention. My current work investigates the role of (emerging) technologies in conflict prevention and anticipation, and in particular how the use and promise of artificial intelligence shapes ideas of what conflict is, how to recognize it, and how to govern it.

My book project is about how the notion of preventability, i.e. the idea that wars and armed conflicts can and should be prevented, is constructed and maintained in international discourse through the formalization and mathematization of war. You can find out more about it here. Beyond war and conflict prevention, I am also interested in research ethics, qualitative methods, international security and international intervention more broadly.

Previously, I was a Global Innovation Program Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House in Philadelphia. I received my PhD in June 2022 from the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I also hold an MA in Political Science and a BA in International Development from the University of Vienna, Austria. My work has been published or is forthcoming in the European Journal of International Relations, the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Global Studies Quarterly, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, among other outlets.