Niklas Schörnig has been a senior research fellow with the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany, since 2005. Prior to joining PRIF as a research fellow, Dr. Schörnig was a Ph.D. candidate at PRIF and wrote his dissertation on American defense industrial policy during the 1990s. He received his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from Goethe-University, Frankfurt, in 2005. Since 2005 he has been a regular visiting lecturer at Goethe-University, Frankfurt. In 2012 he received the “Best Article Award 2006-2011” of the German Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (Journal of International Relations). His current research at PRIF focuses, inter alia, on current trends in warfare, military robotics, military missions of Western democracies and Australian foreign and security policy.

Tommaso is a PhD student in cybersecurity at the University of Oxford, where he is investigating policies to mitigate the cybersecurity skills shortage. He regularly collaborates with the European Union Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) as a CEI expert on topics related to cybersecurity skills development in the EU. Prior to his PhD, he was an Associate Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies, a Researcher at the International Affairs Institute and an intern at the International Peace Research Institute in Geneva. He holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Bologna and he was an exchange student at the Hertie School, Josef Korbel School of International Studies and Université catholique de Louvain.