Dr. phil. Frank Sauer is a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at Bundeswehr University in Munich. He received his doctoral degree from Goethe University Frankfurt and has a background in political science, philosophy, sociology and international law. His work focuses on international security, including nuclear issues, terrorism, cybersecurity and the role of technology in the modern military, especially regarding unmanned and autonomous weapon systems. Dr. Sauer is the author of "Atomic Anxiety: Deterrence, Taboo, and the Non-Use of U.S. Nuclear Weapons". He was associate editor of "Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen" (ZIB), Germany's leading International Relations journal and is co-editor of the German Handbook of International Relations. He is a member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC).

Dr. 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. His most recent publications include inter alia: “Killer Drones – The Silver Bullet of Democratic Warfare?” In: Security Dialogue, 2012, 43: 4, 353-370 (with Frank Sauer); “The Militant Face of Democracy. Liberal Forces for Good“, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (Editor, with Anna Geis and Harald Müller); and „Automatisierte Kriegsführung – Wie viel Entscheidungsraum bleibt dem Menschen?“ [Automated Warfare – what is left for the human to decide?] In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 2014: 35-37, 27-34.